I. Khrushchev's push to grow corn was itself a historical joke, and he was caricatured by his own people as a "corncobber". He didn't do it because he liked corn, but because he was a good-for-nothing and abused his personal power.

Second, the details are as follows:

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In the 1950s, Khrushchev served as the Soviet Union after a hand, vigorously carry out agricultural reforms in the country set off a large-scale planting of corn movement. Khrushchev in the process of reforming and adjusting agriculture, did a lot of ill-considered, subjective and blind things. He saw that the United States planted corn on the development of animal husbandry gained a lot, regardless of how the conditions of the Soviet Union, forcibly expanding the area of corn planting. 1953, the entire Soviet Union's corn sowing area of only 3.5 million hectares, but Khrushchev demanded that the expansion of the 1960 to 28 million hectares, eight years to increase seven times. This requirement led to disastrous consequences. Corn is a dry and hot climate crop, and in many parts of the Soviet Union there was not enough sunshine, and corn often failed to set ears. The crofters resisted passively. The year when the most corn was sown was 1956, when its area reached 9.3 million hectares. After Khrushchev's fall, some regions with a tradition of growing corn refused to do so, and in 1965 only 3.2 million hectares of corn were sown nationwide, below the 1953 level. Khrushchev's plan to expand corn cultivation was completely bankrupt.

2. The related story is as follows:

"The people of the Soviet Union were very friendly to China and to us foreign students, and they were fond of us when we returned to China; however, the Soviet leader had no prestige among the people, and the university students nicknamed Khrushchev 'Cornstalker'. '." I swallowed a mouthful of rice and spoke.

"Why did they call him 'Corncob'?" Mao asked, intrigued, laughing so hard he almost spewed out his rice, interjecting.

"Khrushchev went to visit the United States, where he saw the benefits of corn planting in the United States, he thought he had found a way to develop agriculture, and when he returned home he promoted the planting of corn in the Soviet Union. However, because most of the agricultural areas of the Soviet Union, low temperatures, short frost-free period, cold weather, resulting in many places of corn can not ripen, had to be used as green fodder. For some time, frozen corn on the cob was sold everywhere in food stores, and the benefits of cooking corn were publicized in the press. So when Khrushchev made his radio speeches, the university students shouted with sarcasm:

"Listen! The 'corncob' has spoken again," mocking his failures in agriculture.

Three necessary additions:

Khrushchev was particularly enthusiastic about corn cultivation, once saying, "Corn enables us to work miracles." "I am a strong advocate of corn." Therefore, in order to solve the problem of food and livestock feed, he ignored the natural conditions of the Soviet Union, forcibly expanding the area of corn cultivation, the result is twice the effort.