Stalin's Not Going Hungry

On collectives farmers could use neither chemical fertilizers nor the hybrid corn that America was using to boost yields by 30%. The shanko didn't believe you should use fertilizers either. And he had a... We'll get on to this. So furthermore the fields were left fallow most of the time and when the crops were sewn the vernalized wheat did not sprout. No. Lachenco's frost resistant wheat and rice seeds or the potatoes grown in summer or the sugar beets planted in the hot plains of Central Asia. They all rotted. Ignoring Lachanko's repeated failures, the Soviet press continued to trumpet his endless successes. Cows