The challenge here folks is to get Premier Khrushchev to be see as the greatest of all the Soviet leaders from 1917 - 1991 with any number of PoDs after his OTL assumption to power.
Funny that you consider Mr. "Those corn fields look pretty, let's make everyone in the USSR grow them" to be the greatest leader of the USSR.Well... He pretty much was the greatest and best of them. He had no real war to worry about, represseion at home had been reduced considerably from the Stalinist nightmare, quality of life was constantly improving under him while Soviet influence in the world was rising.
Lenin had his civil war.
Stalin starved the nation nearly to death and deluded himself into thinking Hitler wont attack.
Brezhnev to Chernenko were just living off of everything created by Stalin and Khrushschev.
And Gorbachev ended it all with a signature on a piece of paper.
If his successors had continued the way he ruled the country instead of blowing it all to hell the Soviet Union would still be around today.
To be fair the bar for "greatest leader of the USSR" is very low.Funny that you consider Mr. "Those corn fields look pretty, let's make everyone in the USSR grow them" to be the greatest leader of the USSR.
Well, in my opinion, Lenin was the most capable of the USSR leaders, he won one of the worst civil wars in the 20th century and didn't do too badly in rebuilding the nation afterwards, but to each his own.To be fair the bar for "greatest leader of the USSR" is very low.
He also started said civil war which cost 10(?) million Russian lives.Well, in my opinion, Lenin was the most capable of the USSR leaders, he won one of the worst civil wars in the 20th century and didn't do too badly in rebuilding the nation afterwards, but to each his own.
Corn was and is the most successful feed crop, including in the US which was and still is the largest food exporter. That Khrushchev chose corn as an industry to expand wasn't the dumb part. The dumb part was that he chose to grow corn in uninhabitable cold areas as a monoculture, instead of specializing corn cultivation in the USSR's warmest areas exclusively, and concentrating on up-to-date fertilizing and mechanical harvesting methods in those areas, which would have gotten the results he wanted.Funny that you consider Mr. "Those corn fields look pretty, let's make everyone in the USSR grow them" to be the greatest leader of the USSR.