In 1972, the Soviet Union represented 15% of the world’s GDP and consumed 18% of the world’s food.
Investors may want to focus on a deal masterminded by a forgotten bureaucrat in 1972. Nicolai Belousov was the head of Exportkhleb, the Soviet state grain trading agency. The Soviet Union was dismantled in 1991, but it was a powerhouse in its day.
It was a sprawling nation of 12 time zones. The superpower has since disintegrated into 15 separate states.
