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GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
2. Great history lesson!
Tue Apr 16, 2019, 09:11 PM
Apr 2019

In my biology and Agriculture classes in college we learned about it.

It helps explain why the Soviets were able to compete with us in engineering and physics, even with less resources. Often times they beat us.

But they never could feed themselves very well. A large part of this, of course, was that communism and collective farms just don’t work. Especially when they have been collectivized to suppress minority populations. But another reason is their seed stock sucked. It never improved. And often got worse year to year. We were improving yields tremendously based on sound genetic science.






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