Virgin Lands campaign

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

The Virgin Lands campaign was Nikita Khrushchev's 1953 plan to dramatically boost the Soviet Union's agricultural production in order to alleviate the food shortages plaguing the Soviet population.

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Image: Post of the Soviet Union, designer G. Komlev / Почта СССР, художник Г. Комлев, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.