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Me:
Me neither, though the extent of the USSR's economic crisis in the late 80s was overrated. There was no chance of famine in 1991. Those figures on failed agricultural production were cooked in order to undermine the Gorbachev regime and get Western support and "aid." Hell, practically everybody in Russia grows their own food at least in part.
Chris Doss The Russia Journal
-It seems the trouble with SU agriculture wasn?t raw production, which was -probably enough to feed the country, but a huge 30% loss of harvest in -storage and transport, with the collapse of central planning ib 1991, it -would have worsened, even if they had a relatively good harvest.
Alexandre Fenelon