[lbo-talk] Consumer goods (Back to the USSR)

[Gary?]

From: Michael Pugliese
> At the very beginning of the collectivisation drive in 1929,
Stalin
> promised that in some three years the USSR would be the
greatest grain
> producing country in the world. [1] A couple of years later
came the great
> famine. This did not prevent Stalin from repeating the
declaration, and
> promising (on December 1, 1935) that within three or four years
USSR grain
> output would be raised to 120-130 million tons>

sounds like Bush's declarations of job growth.

Gary
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