That's a rather charitable view of the Soviet education system, probably colored by the biased selection you'd see in the West. By 1990, that "very highly educ

That's a rather charitable view of the Soviet education system, probably colored by the biased selection you'd see in the West. By 1990, that "very highly educated general populace" was setting out jars of water in front of their TV screens, so they would get charged with healing powers of ESPers