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Hello, you're listening to the Witness History podcast from the BBC World Service with me,

Dina Newman. Today we go back to the 1950s when the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev embarked on an ambitious agricultural project to develop vast areas of previously uncultivated

land to the southeast of Russia.

I've been speaking to one of the young volunteers who took part in the so-called Virgin Lands

campaign.

Prakletum Krasu, the material Krasu.

79-year-old Rima Busurova is singing a song from the days of her youth when she worked as an

agricultural volunteer. It's an ironic song describing the hardships faced by her and her comrades in the 1950s,

but Rima has fond memories of her volunteering days.

After the death of Stalin in 1953, the Soviet people breathe the collective sigh of relief.

Food shortages were still a daily reality, but the new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev,

in contrast to Stalin's methods of forced labour,

passionately believed in the power of collective volunteer efforts.

You know my soul is singing when I get to know our people and the results of their labor. All we need to do is use this

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