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And, interestingly,

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it wasn't only private peasants
who were hoarding grain.

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One of the big problems

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that the government
pointed to at the time,

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for the lack of procurement
of the grain surpluses,

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was hoarding.

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If peasants produced a lot of grain,
but then they hid it in their cellar,

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then this prevented the government
from procuring enough grain

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to fulfill the planned targets.

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However, it wasn't only
individual peasants.

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There were several problems,
major problems,

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that prevented the procurement,

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and that included wagons
full of rotting wheat,

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and lack of storage,
and transport, and other facilities.

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But there was also the problem
of hoarding grain

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or hiding their stores away.

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The kolkhozy and sovkhozy -

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those are the collective farms
and the state farms -

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when they were alarmed

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at the amount of grain collection
that were being demanded,

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they hid their stores,

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and they were actually the worst offenders
in fulfilling their quotas.

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But, again, the problem
of the lack of storage and transport

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were continually remarked upon
by the collective farmers and peasants.

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There were rotting grain in railways,

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in places where it had not been
delivered to the state,

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and this was a major part
of the grain-fulfillment problem.

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Transcriber: Michel Smits
Reviewer: Maurício Kakuei Tanaka