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David Honig wrote:
No one forces a farmer to the city to look for an industrial job.
On 22 Oct 2001, at 12:21, Ken Brown wrote:
In general, no. But it happens now and again. Governments certainly did in (say) the old Soviet Union
I do not think so. Lenin surrounded the cities to keep people and food from going in and out. This was the first step in a program to reintroduce serfdom, binding the peasant to the land. Lenin, and later Stalin, were waging war on the countryside to extort food without supplying goods. This produced a flight from the countryside, that they immediately met with terror. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG DNPY/HlstuOZEMVRUtY8Fzx8ICjFn2nqiYfet8LB 4yqj5vJH5lSGh0fTn9MhNe7LOs+Lq9d6wLTmJ8/Ve