Subsidizing Stalinism.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | v29 |
| Issue | n5 |
| Published | 1997-10-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Brian Doherty |
In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin launched one of history's largest campaigns of mass murder in an attempt to collectivize agriculture in the Ukraine. Today, an un-Soviet Ukraine is blessed with struggling private farm plots, which make up only 15 percent of the farmland but provide over one third of agricultural production.
But the U.S. government's Export-Import Bank is busy propping up the collectivist farm legacy of Stalin in Ukraine. Ex-Im, as it's colloquially known, recently underwrote a $187 million sale of John Deere farm equipment that will end up with the huge, inefficient...
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