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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: food for thought
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 19:25:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  6 19:25:41 1985
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> How many of the serfs in the USSR were starving while the USSR was exporting 
> wheat? 
> 
> Mike Williams

1) I didn't know that the USSR existed before 1917...

2) There were no major famines in Russia during the last two decades of
Imperial rule.  However, all that changed with Lenin and Stalin.  Then
again, serfdom was abolished in 1861, so perhaps my example doesn't
count...
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

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