Why is Khrushchev called "corn machine"

First, Khrushchev's vigorous promotion of planting corn is a historical joke in itself, and it is also satirized by his own people as "corn on the cob". Not because he likes corn, but because he is overjoyed and abuses his personal rights.

Second, the detailed explanation is as follows:

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In the 1950s, after Khrushchev became the head of the Soviet Union, he vigorously carried out agricultural reform and set off a large-scale corn planting movement throughout the country. Khrushchev did a lot of thoughtless and subjective things in the process of reforming and adjusting agriculture. He saw that planting corn in the United States was very beneficial to the development of animal husbandry, so he forced to expand the planting area of corn regardless of the conditions of the Soviet Union. 1953, the sown area of corn in the whole Soviet Union was only 3.5 million hectares, but Khrushchev demanded that it be expanded to 28 million hectares by 1960, and it should be increased seven times in eight years. This rule will have disastrous consequences. Corn is a dry and hot climate crop, but there is insufficient sunshine in many parts of the Soviet Union, and corn often does not ear. The villagers passively resisted. The year in which corn was sown the most was 1956, covering an area of 9.3 million hectares. After Khrushchev stepped down, some traditional corn-growing areas refused to grow corn. 1965 The national corn planting area was only 3.2 million hectares, which was lower than the level of 1953. Khrushchev's plan to expand corn planting area was completely bankrupt.

2. The related story is as follows:

"The Soviet people are very friendly to China and our international students. When we got home, they didn't want to go; However, Soviet leaders have no prestige among the people, and college students have nicknamed Khrushchev' corn on the cob'. " I swallowed a mouthful of rice and began to speak.

"Why do you call him' corn on the cob'?" Mao Zedong after hearing this, very interested, laughed almost spit out rice, asked:

Khrushchev visited the United States and saw the benefits of American corn in the United States. He thought he had found a way to develop agriculture and promoted corn planting in the Soviet Union after returning home. However, due to the low temperature, short frost-free period and cold weather in most agricultural areas of the Soviet Union, corn in many places could not mature and had to be used as green feed. At one time, frozen tender corn cobs were sold everywhere in grocery stores, and the benefits of cooking corn were publicized in newspapers and periodicals. So whenever Khrushchev made a radio address, college students sarcastically shouted:

"Listen! "On the cob" spoke again, "laughing at his failure in agriculture.

Three. Necessary supplement:

Khrushchev was particularly keen on the cultivation of corn, and once said that "corn can make us create miracles". I strongly support corn. Therefore, in order to solve the problem of grain and livestock feed, he ignored the natural conditions of the Soviet Union and forcibly expanded the corn planting area, resulting in half the effort.