09/21/2024
There were several destabilizing events in the world in the last century. WWI and WWII were among them. But there were also several non-military events as well. The Communist Revolution in the Russian Empire and the Great Depression.
The Communist Revolution overthrew the Romanov Dynasty that had ruled Russia for nigh on 300 years. Peasants, also called serfs, who had been locked onto the aristocrats' massive farms, now had no pay checks or food.
The Communists wanted collective farms where nobody worked for anybody else. They were all equal. Famines followed. No personal property permitted. Those who knew agriculture called Kulaks were wiped out.
The Great Depression began in the United States due to actions leading up to it. The steel plow was invented by John Deere. He formed a Company in Illinois to make and sell the plows as well as the tractors to pull them.
Farmers migrated to the High Plains and plowed up the prairie grasses. Once the grasses were gone the drought and high winds produced a massive Dust Bowl. The winds blew away topsoil's that took millennia to form.
The steel plows and tractors called the mechanization of agriculture eliminated the need for horses, horse handlers, horse feed and precipitated massive unemployment. The unemployed drifted into the industrial cities. The Great Depression followed.
Both of these events are described in great detail in my book entitle "Secrets of the Vietnam War" because they caused subsequent events that led to WWII, then Kore and then the Vietnam Civil War. Hope you enjoy the read.
