By Fernando Navarro Robuschi:

Among the many breath-taking achievements of the USSR (thanks to socialist policies) I think the most important (by virtue of being directly related to life), is the achievement of "Food Security" in all the republics.

The concept of "Food security" has more than one definition, but essentially means:

"When all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to affordable, nutritious food in sufficient quantity"

"Sufficient" as in "enough to grow up/develop in a healthy way"

This was the case in the USSR. Thanks, among other things (such as centrally managing the country's resources and the use of administrative prices), to the collectivization of the countryside.

After the extremely bad harvest of 1932-1933 (which caused a famine in the Ukrainian SSR and was in turn caused not only by bad weather but also by the Kulaks killing/eating their own cattle and burning their crops in protest to the collectivization drive) famine nev

By Fernando Navarro Robuschi:

Among the many breath-taking achievements of the USSR (thanks to socialist policies) I think the most important (by virtue of being directly related to life), is the achievement of "Food Security" in all the republics.

The concept of "Food security" has more than one definition, but essentially means:

"When all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to affordable, nutritious food in sufficient quantity"

"Sufficient" as in "enough to grow up/develop in a healthy way"

This was the case in the USSR. Thanks, among other things (such as centrally managing the country's resources and the use of administrative prices), to the collectivization of the countryside.

After the extremely bad harvest of 1932-1933 (which caused a famine in the Ukrainian SSR and was in turn caused not only by bad weather but also by the Kulaks killing/eating their own cattle and burning their crops in protest to the collectivization drive) famine nev