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The Russians Are Indeed Coming

In the 1960s, there was a popular movie called: “The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming”. The plot was a Soviet naval commander runs his sub aground off a Massachusetts coastal island and sends two English-speaking crewmen ashore to procure a boat with enough power to pull them free. The Russian sailors didn’t exactly blend in and chaos ensued.

That was fiction, but today American farmers face the hard facts that the Russians are invading our wheat markets worldwide.

Many of us remember Soviet Union collective farms which were a dismal failure. Joseph Stalin, the brutal Russian dicta...

 

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