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Once In A Century Crop Failure Hits Soviet Economy
The 1972 drought and cold winter caused a major winter kill of grain seedings and a drought across wide areas, lowering the harvest by an estimated 30 million tons and prompting a billion dollars in grain imports from the United States. Brezhnev called the year “unprecedentedly difficult” while Moscow pursued rapid trade expansion with Washington and Western technology. Labor productivity rose only 5.5 percent in 1972, below the 6.3 percent in 1971 and far from the 6.8 percent target for the 1971-75 plan, intensifying calls to improve efficiency and growth.
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Moscow
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Russia
Vladimir V. Matskevich
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
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Nixon
Japan
West Germany