The funny thing, of course, is that despite the American experience of "overturning virgin soil" and the subsequent catastrophic consequences in the form of the "Dust Bowl" period, when winds from the mountains lifted millions of tons of soil from the plains into the sky and carried them even to New York and Washington, the Soviet authorities also decided to follow the extensive path of 50-60. problems how did you decide Yes, just like Roosevelt - with plantations. We started under Stalin and ended under Brezhnev. In this context, much of what is considered innovation in Chinese or Soviet economics and politics today is the copying and borrowing of American experience.