Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "" video.

  1. The Food Minister czar was a traditional route to the top job in the USSR. Gorby came up this way, Khrushchev came up this way. He was the guy that really began to drain the Aral Sea, BTW. He used that watershed to massively expand cotton agriculture in the Kazhak desert. Said cotton proved instantly to be a real money spinner as an export crop. The Bolsheviks had an unlimited thirst for Western currency to obtain Western imports. This was also the era of totally crazy attempts to get citrus crops to grow in Siberia -- and other such stunts. There was even a directive to get farm workers to feed straw to their hogs -- in imitation to feeding hay to cows. Those Moscow boys sure were jolly jokers.
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