"In the Soviet Union, scholarly disputes over polygraph were substituted by political ones. Th e main opponent of polygraph detection in criminal justice was the then prosecutor general of USSR, A. Vyshynskyi who considered them an “unscientifi c underhandedness of bourgeois proceedings”, a return to the Inquisition, etc.[2] Due to such dominant ideological position in the state, polygraph research was suspended for decades."(...)