[WikiEN-l] Can we ban 172 now? And VV too! (in response to Fred Bauder)

Wed Jun 2 15:51:35 UTC 2004

You stand convicted by your own words. This exerpt is an excellent example,
no famines, no mass murder, no gulag, no deportations. And most especially,
no failure to produce enough to adequately feed the Soviet people.

Fred

> From: "Abe Sokolov" <abesokolov at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 14:37:19 +0000
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Can we ban 172 now? And VV too! (in response to Fred
> Bauder)
> 
> ==Agriculture==
> 
> [[Agriculture]] was organized into a system of state and collective farms.
> Organized on a large scale and highly mechanized, the Soviet Union was one
> of the world's leading producers of cereals, although bad harvests (as in
> [[1972]] and [[1975]]) necessitated imports and slowed the economy. The
> [[1976]]-[[1980]] five-year plan shifted resources to agriculture, and
> [[1978]] saw a record harvest. [[Cotton]], [[sugar beet]]s, [[potato]]es,
> and [[flax]] were also major crops.
> 
> Despite immense land resources, extensive machinery and chemical industries,
> and a large rural work force, Soviet agriculture was relatively
> unproductive, hampered in many areas by the [[climate]] (only 10 percent of
> the Soviet Union's land was arable), and poor worker [[productivity]].
> 
> Conditions were best in the temperate black-earth belt stretching from the
> Ukraine through southern [[Russia]] into the west spanning the extreme
> southern portions of [[Siberia]].
> 
> Stalin established the USSR's system of state and collective farms when he
> moved to replaced the NEP with collective farming in 1928, which grouped
> peasants into collective farms (''[[kolkhoz]]es'') and state farms
> (''[[sovkhoz]]es'').