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Re:Movements of the Cold War: How the Soviets Revolutionized... by GFK_of_xmaspast on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:05PM (#13190758)
> but, being a dictatorship, Soviet authorities just took however much they could from the collective farms

This phrasing makes it sound like they were just swimming around in big piles of wheat like Scrooge McDuck except with a much higher chance of asphyxiation.

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Re:Movements of the Cold War: How the Soviets Revolutionized... by nine_k on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:37PM (#13190865)
What I tried to depict is not swimming, but rather sweeping: sweeping out everything, down to the last grain.

People actively tried to hide some of the wheat, to keep themselves from starving, so the methods of taking were rather harsh.

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