Observations · Society · Humour

If we are to speak seriously of the meme "in the USSR bread was bread, the crusts were tasty and the crumb heavenly, that's what Canadian wheat does for you", then the Soviet Union began buying wheat from Western countries as early as 1963, a year that wa

Nature sent a drought, and the government, as luck would have it, chose that very moment for another piece of folly. Instead of wheat they sowed maize and fodder crops, to feed the livestock that had been taken from private households since 1959; the cultivation of the virgin lands faltered;