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>>3423834
>If anything, the Soviet Union was responsible for ending the cycle of drought and starvation that had affected Russia for hundreds of years prior.

Norman Borlaug and his international teams solved the historical famine problem in the mid 1900s, not the Soviet Union which only exacerbated its existing food problems through collectivism etc.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/13/AR2009091300375.html

>Dr. Borlaug was barely known in the country of his birth. But in India, Mexico and other nations susceptible to hunger and famine, he was known as one of the great Americans of modern times. Price accompanied Dr. Borlaug to Russia, where he visited a wheat research institute south of Moscow. "When Norm came in," Price said, "the scientists at the institute all cried."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYUvt0f4qbE