Collective Farms and Hoarding Grain
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0:00 - 0:02And, interestingly,
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0:02 - 0:06it wasn't only private peasants
who were hoarding grain. -
0:06 - 0:08One of the big problems
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0:08 - 0:10that the government
pointed to at the time, -
0:10 - 0:14for the lack of procurement
of the grain surpluses, -
0:14 - 0:15was hoarding.
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0:15 - 0:20If peasants produced a lot of grain,
but then they hid it in their cellar, -
0:20 - 0:24then this prevented the government
from procuring enough grain -
0:24 - 0:26to fulfill the planned targets.
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0:26 - 0:28However, it wasn't only
individual peasants. -
0:28 - 0:31There were several problems,
major problems, -
0:31 - 0:34that prevented the procurement,
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0:34 - 0:38and that included wagons
full of rotting wheat, -
0:38 - 0:41and lack of storage,
and transport, and other facilities. -
0:41 - 0:44But there was also the problem
of hoarding grain -
0:44 - 0:46or hiding their stores away.
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0:46 - 0:48The kolkhozy and sovkhozy -
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0:48 - 0:51those are the collective farms
and the state farms - -
0:51 - 0:52when they were alarmed
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0:52 - 0:55at the amount of grain collection
that were being demanded, -
0:55 - 0:57they hid their stores,
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0:57 - 1:01and they were actually the worst offenders
in fulfilling their quotas. -
1:01 - 1:05But, again, the problem
of the lack of storage and transport -
1:05 - 1:11were continually remarked upon
by the collective farmers and peasants. -
1:11 - 1:14There were rotting grain in railways,
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1:14 - 1:18in places where it had not been
delivered to the state, -
1:18 - 1:22and this was a major part
of the grain-fulfillment problem. -
1:22 - 1:25Transcriber: Michel Smits
Reviewer: Maurício Kakuei Tanaka
- Title:
- Collective Farms and Hoarding Grain
- Description:
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http://mruniversity.com/courses/economic-history-soviet-union/collective-farms-and-hoarding-grain
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- Marginal Revolution University
- Project:
- Other videos
- Duration:
- 01:33
Maurício Kakuei Tanaka edited English subtitles for Collective Farms and Hoarding Grain | ||
Michel Smits edited English subtitles for Collective Farms and Hoarding Grain | ||
Michel Smits edited English subtitles for Collective Farms and Hoarding Grain | ||
Michel Smits edited English subtitles for Collective Farms and Hoarding Grain |