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How a tiny potato beetle became a Cold War weapon: The bizarre story behind East Germany's 'American insect' campaign
In the summer of 1950, farmers across East Germany began finding their potato crops stripped bare. The culprit was the Colorado potato beetle, a small, striped insect native to North America that had been spreading steadily across Europe for decades.
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timesofindia.indiatimes.com
How a tiny potato beetle became a Cold War weapon: The bizarre story behind East Germany's 'American insect' campaign
In the summer of 1950, farmers across East Germany began finding their potato crops stripped bare. The culprit was the Colorado potato beetle, a small, striped insect native to…
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economictimes.indiatimes.com
In 1950, amid the Cold War, a tiny beetle from the US was destroying potato crops across East Germany. Then began one of history's…