Hey ya’ll, first time posting here.

In my first year of med school, we had a nice grandpa of a professor (He is currently 98 and still rocking it) that taught us a bit about medical history.

During one of his lectures, he said something about the fact that during the communist regime no new pharmaceutical drugs were invented/discovered, while in the same time a boom of drugs came out in the west.

I tried to investigate this by myself but couldn’t find anything about it online. So i have 2 questions:

1. Is that fact indeed correct? That no drugs were invented during the USSR reign?
2. If that is true, was there specific reasons for it? I know that a lot of technological advancements were made in the USSR, so I was wondering if there was some specific policy/attitude about the study/creation of medicine?

Thank you all and I hope you have a amazing weekend!