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| MLA Full: | "Joseph Stalin Was Very Wrong About Agriculture." YouTube, uploaded by SciShow, 7 October 2025, www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqebCTOQyMM. |
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Soviet agronomist Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was obsessed with plants. Especially finding out where domesticated crops first came from. And out of his research came a proposal that certain crops, like rye and oats, were evolutionary accidents. Stalin didn't particularly like that idea.
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