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 3 weeks agoCool. Yet you are ignoring the very tiny fact that collective farms started famines. They didn’t “just underperform”.
brendansimms@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You are not recalling it correctly.
brendansimms@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
no i am.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, I guess the great depression never happened, correct?
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The great depression has never starved millions of Ukrainians to death.