During one war, this country was divided into a deficit zone and a surplus zone as part of a plan orchestrated by Herbert Backe. Walter Duranty reported on an event in this country that saw many granaries closed down and food stocks forcibly seized by blacklisting, and this country’s food supplies were the target of the Hunger Plan. A group of scientists chose to starve rather than eat seeds in a seed bank in this country during a siege that saw relief from the (*) Road of Life. It’s not the United Kingdom, but this country was the recipient of 4 million tons of food aid by the Lend-Lease Act, and this country was the site of an event where the policies of forced collectivization and dekulakization led to mass starvation. The Holodomor took place in, for 10 points, what country led by Joseph Stalin? ■END■
ANSWER: USSR [or Soviet Union; or Union of Socialist Soviet Republics; prompt on Russia or Ukraine]
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