Potato Beetle Drops

thumb|250px|The potato beetle, America's imaginary weapon nearly turned realPotato Beetle Drops were a form of entomological warfare developed by NATO during the Cold War to be used against the Comintern; alas, it's development was halted in 1991, by the Soviet Union storming into Area 51, and destroying a large chunk of it, including the laboratory in which Potato Beetle bombardments were planned.
As the Soviet Union was dissolved following the Third World War, the project was never reactivated.
==History==
==="Behold, the Colorado Beetle!"===
thumb|250px|East German propaganda poster about the evil "Yankee Beetle"Communist states always had an almost paranoid tendency of blaming America for everything, even the most miniscule thing. The demonized country was to be blamed for everything; and communist propaganda and anti-americanism went as far as replacing the word "comic" in Poland with the remarkably emotionless euphenism "coloured book", as the term was deemed too American. But the communist "America derangement syndrome" did not end at writing propaganda poems about Coca Cola-guzzling demons in Ku Klux Klan hoods whipping black people and abusing North Koreans.
During the 1950's, Europe started to be infested by the Colorado potato beetle, which was destroying potato crops; with potato being a staple of European cuisine, it was obvious as to why that this invasive little insect was a big problem. The communist solution to the problem? Why, blame America. Communist governments of East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia proclaimed that American pilots dropped the beetles as a form of entomological warfare to destroy Eastern Bloc crops and weaken their economy, and thus, pest control became a political battle against the nebulous Evil West. Lowly peasants and village people, children and the elderly all gathered, encouraged by poems, government films and propaganda posters.
===The Real Deal===
thumb|250px|Area 51 scientists breeding the official Colorado potato beetle of warThis was all followed by the eyes of the CIA - the obsessively anti-Western Commies came up with a better idea for entomological warfare than they could ever conceive themselves, and thus by 1968, the work on the official crop-devouring beetle breed has begun in Area 51. The beetles were bred to create the most gluttonous, harmful and rapidly-breeding breed possible, capable of demolishing large fields of crops in a matter of days. These beetles were to be dropped all across the Soviet Union and the sattelite states, but before that could be done, the Third World War erupted, putting many American projects on hold, as home defense became the priority.
The breeding of the beetles was cut short in 1991, when Yuri Semashkoshov, a Spetsnaz operative stormed Area 51, and destroyed a large chunk of it, including the laboratory in which Potato Beetle bombardments were planned, using strategically planted Bombs.
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