It's worth noting that scientific progress in the Soviet Union seriously stagnated in the Lysenko era due to the prioritization of ideology and the destruction of independent science.
I'd argue we are seeing the same thing in many western countries, especially the USA, under the ideology of corporate control of academic research. Much can be traced back to Bayh-Dole legislation in the 1980s, which allowed universities to exclusively license patents (which had been developed with taxpayer money) to private entities.
This created a new system of control and influence in academics, i.e. the Intellectual Property Office. What it really represented was the offloading of R & D burdens from the private sector to the public sector, while retaining private control of the patents generated in the public sector.
This means academic scientists in the USA today labor under the constraints imposed by large profit-minded corporations, just as academic scientists in the Soviet Union labored under constraints imposed by communist ideologues.
This is clearly seen in the pharmaceutical and medical sectors, where research into treatments for conditions is limited to patentable drugs only, older out-of-patent drugs are seen as unprofitable even if they're show to be effective treatments for off-label conditions.
Another good example is the elimination of R&D programs for renewable energy by the state; as fossil fuel interests infiltrated government and exerted regulatory capture at institituions like the Department of Energy, solar R&D programs in the USA were basically eliminated in the 1980s and 1990s (leading countries like China, Germany and Japan to become the world leaders).
There was also the gutting of environment pollution research that used to be funded by USGS, again due to regulatory capture and threats to deny funding in the 1990s.
Basically, the new ideology in American science institutions seems to be 'only do research into subjects that can generate profits for our corporate sponsors', much as it was in the Soviet Union, where the line was 'only do research whose conclusions support the communist ideology'.