In a lot of ways this was a propagation of Stalin's principle of collectivisation in football where the entire unit came before individuals. (thehardtackle.com)
His efforts at collectivisation and agrarian reform were generally a failure and better results were achieved by more moderate leaders like Lula da Silva in Brazil, primarily due to higher administrative standards and the absence of a distracting rhetorical war with Washington. (politics.co.uk)
Fred Pearce contrasts a «market - based view of nature» with the observation that «collectivisation hardly treated the steppes of the Soviet... (newscientist.com)