iirc…Lysenko (soviet agri-scientist - a shitty one) had convinced the party leaders that his newly bred ‘winter-hardy’ wheat breed was worthy of being planted en masse. It had worked well under ideal lab conditions but failed after several crop yields when planted in the field, and this created famine.
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Maalus@lemmy.world 1 week agoCool. Yet you are ignoring the very tiny fact that collective farms started famines. They didn’t “just underperform”.
brendansimms@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Maalus@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You are not recalling it correctly.
brendansimms@lemmy.world 6 days ago
no i am.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well, I guess the great depression never happened, correct?
Maalus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The great depression has never starved millions of Ukrainians to death.