“I don’t think corn grows in most of Russia.”
They don’t. After the fall of the Iron Curtain (which is debatable - it still exists...), we exported many, many metric tons of corn to help them economically. It was meant to help feed the population, but they used it to keep their livestock alive! A Russian escort for our START team laughed at us for eating pig feed.
"A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people."