• gowan@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    The wheat shortage in the 1980s had to do with a blight hitting the strains the USSR grew. The problem was not growing enough different strains of wheat that weren’t susceptible to the blight not their method of distributing food.

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      1 year ago

      Well it wasn’t so much a problem to Russians because their centralized economic system allowed them to simply starve away those they didn’t like