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...anyone was inclined to criticize this failure, or the costly palliative of buying grain from the West, Khrushchev had the standard answer: remember how bad things were under Stalin. In 1947, to earn foreign exchange, Stalin and Molotov actually sold grain abroad while in a number of areas "people had bloated stomachs or even died from lack of food." It was the first time Moscow had admitted that starvation took place in the Soviet Union since the forced collectivization of the early 1930s...
...raise production enough to avoid drastic food cuts or permanent dependence on expensive foreign farm products, such as the 11 million tons of wheat the Soviets are buying from the West. Asks a current Moscow joke: "What was Stalin's last mistake?" Answer: "He stockpiled enough grain for only ten years...
...been domesticated; long journeys over waterless stretches were not as easy as in more recent times. The patriarchs grazed their cattle, sheep and goats on the edge of agricultural country, getting water from the farmers, doing a little farming themselves, and trading wool, cheese and other pastoral products for grain and manufactured articles...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25--The Senate Banking Committee gave President Johnson's new administration its first congressional victory today, recommending against a proposal that might have blocked grain sales to the Soviets. At stake is the sale of some 150 million bushels of wheat to communist countries approved by the late President Kennedy...
...margin the committee voted against a proposal by Sen. Kerl E. Mundt (R.S.D.), to ban use of government loans or financing guaranteeing that American sellers will be paid for the grain they ship to Iron Curtain countries. The committee vote first was announced as a 7-7 tie, but Sen. Harrison A. Williams (D.N.J.), sent his proxy to provide the margin against...