The Virgin Lands campaign was Nikita Khrushchev's 1953 plan to dramatically boost the Soviet Union's agricultural production in order to alleviate the food shortages plaguing the Soviet population. Hundreds of thousands of young volunteers settled and farmed areas of Western Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan and considerably changed its demographics.
The Virgin Lands campaign was Nikita Khrushchev's 1953 plan to dramatically boost the Soviet Union's agricultural production in order to alleviate the food shortages plaguing the Soviet population. Hundreds of thousands of young volunteers settled and farmed areas of Western Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan and considerably changed its demographics.
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