collective farm
noun
: a farm especially in a Communist country formed from many small holdings collected into a single unit for joint operation under governmental supervision
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In the fall, workers piled into trucks heading for the collective farms and harvested immense amounts of wheat, afterwards swigging vodka straight from the bottle and dancing in the stubbly fields.
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Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Ukraine was the center of a Nazi hunger plan whereby Stalin’s collective farms were to be seized and used to feed Germany and other European territories, causing tens of millions of Soviet citizens to starve.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
Among the ruins of Soviet collective farms, Goldstein finds a different kind of revolution: an artisanal one.
—Hannah Whitaker, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2024
The collective farm’s crop rows stretch right up to the border, less than a kilometer away.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
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Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Ukraine was the center of a Nazi hunger plan whereby Stalin’s collective farms were to be seized and used to feed Germany and other European territories, causing tens of millions of Soviet citizens to starve.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
Among the ruins of Soviet collective farms, Goldstein finds a different kind of revolution: an artisanal one.
—Hannah Whitaker, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2024
The collective farm’s crop rows stretch right up to the border, less than a kilometer away.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
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