The USSR Harvest of Ukrainian Wheat
The politics of food has always preoccupied great nations. Lenin desperately wanted a settled Ukraine because of Russian food security. Starvation in Russia during 1918 almost collapsed the Bolsheviks.
If Moscow were to have the first option on Ukrainian wheat, it would solve that problem. In addition, Bolshevik theory denied the reality of individual nations, which justified raids from Russia into Ukraine to establish collectivized wheat farms. In 1920, the Ukrainian wheatlands fell into the hands of Russian-led collectivists. The loss of control over Ukrainian wheat was another pressure pushing Ukraine into the USSR.With the formation of the USSR, Russian free access to Ukrainian resources was guaranteed. Ukrainian wheat farming revived somewhat, harvests started rolling in, and rolling stock started to take tons of wheat northwards to the bakeries of Moscow. Revolutionary freedom for Ukraine meant that only the direction of the traffic in wheat had changed. Polish wheat simply became Russian wheat.
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