Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: food for thought Message-ID: <328@talcott.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 19:25:41 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.328 Posted: Wed Mar 6 19:25:41 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 20:18:37 EST References: <812@oliven.UUCP> <770@erix.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Lines: 16 > 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... --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "2*x^5-10*x+5=0 is not solvable by radicals." -Evariste Galois.