Ihe Ukrainian wheat from the chernozems, these black soils rich in humus and mineral salts, which has occupied so many minds for a month, is not a newcomer to history. In the days of ancient Greece, Athens itself already depended on it for its food security. It was supplied in Egypt, in Sicily, but especially in Tauride, current Crimea. To stock up, she developed a fleet, became a thalassocracy and founded along the Pont-Euxin (the Black Sea) a whole series of counters called to cross time.
More recently, this vast attic has been the object of the most radical desires and theories of two regimes which were no less radical: the USSR and the Thirdand Reich. In the first case, the extermination by starvation of the Ukrainian peasantry, which…
Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Coll. Christopher – Alamy Stock Photo/Abaca
