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How Soviet Citizens Survived on This Forgotten Plant When the Shelves Went Empty

There is a plant growing in the cracks of your sidewalk right now that contains more protein than spinach, more iron than kale, and more vitamin A than carrots. It fed the Roman legions. It nourished the Vikings. And when Soviet collectivization stripped the fields bare and left millions to starve, it became the thin green line between survival and death.
The herbicide industry spends billions every year making sure you call it a weed. But for four thousand years, civilizations called it dinner. Then we erased it. Not because it failed. Because it was too successful. A plant that grows without permission, that feeds without cost, and spreads faster than any crop humans have ever cultivated cannot be controlled. And what cannot be controlled cannot generate profit.
This is the story of the crop that survived the collapse of empires, fed families through the darkest chapter in Soviet history, and still waits in your garden for you to remember what your ancestors knew.

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