Khrushchov says Stalin oxportod wheat whilo Russians starved

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; Speaking to the Central Committes of the CPSU on December 9th, Khrushchev said: “If wo followed the methods of Stalin and Melotey in providing bread for the population then we should have been able to export grain even this 7ears

"This is what their method wast they saported grain while people in certain arens of this country becano swollon with hunger and oven starved to donth. Yes, comrades, it is a fact that in a mumber cf regions of the country, in the Kursk region for instance, people starvad to death in 1947 and we sold grain at that time."

MY, Khrushchev, who comes frem a village near Kursk, indicated the size of this yoar's grain harvest by saying that the stato had purchased 13m. tons more this yoar than in 1953, the yoor of Stalin's death, This means thet state purchases showod a reduction of about 20% on last years