The worst part, perhaps, was how Wallace breezily dismissed the millions of people starved by Stalin in the Ukraine and elsewhere as merely a price to be paid for progress: Collective farming, to Stalin, was a method of making agriculture more productive, of getting the food surplus necessary to support urban workers. We in the United States may regard the methods employed as too costly in human terms, but there is no denying that it was a measure for integrating farm output with urban growth, and a necessary measure if the industrialization plan, out of which came Karaganda and the other
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