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What was the main reason Joseph Stalin created collective farms?

Soviet farms were old-fashioned and inefficient.
Collective farms would create many new jobs.
Farmland could be turned into industrial land.
Wasteful crop surpluses would be eliminated.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Soviet farms were old-fashioned and inefficient.

Stalin pushed collectivization to modernize and mechanize agriculture, increase grain procurement for urban workers and export (to fund industrialization), and bring peasant land and resources under state control.