Virgin Lands campaign
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virgin-lands-campaign-269-12964312
title:
Virgin Lands campaign
text:
The Virgin Lands campaign was Nikita Khrushchev's 1953 plan to dramatically boost the Soviet Union's agricultural production in order to alleviate the food shortages plaguing the Soviet populace. Hundreds of thousands of young volunteers settled and farmed areas of Western Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan. While the scheme was initially successful, it eventually became a failure for Soviet agriculture.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1953–63 Soviet agricultural production plan
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Lands_campaign
date created:
date modified:
2024-04-24T15:53:31Z
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