Lyensko affair
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- Created on: 22-04-16 13:40
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- The Lyensko Affair
- Lyensko, claimed to have discovered a way of developing 'super crops'
- They would grow in any season.
- They would yield up to 16 times more than the harvest produced by traditional methods.
- Stalin supported the claims.
- Lyensko's claims were completely false.
- Those who challenged him were sent to the Gulags.
- After Stalin's death it was exposed that the claims were false.
- The 'super crop' played a part in creating the famine.
- Lyensko, claimed to have discovered a way of developing 'super crops'
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