After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the state-run farms were reorganized and nominally privatized.

They had to plant crops according to instructions from the central authorities, especially if they were on state-run farms.

Today, a return to state-run communal farms is unthinkable.

Fan Wu grew up on a state-run farm in southern China where her parents were exiled during the Cultural Revolution.

So City Hall is scrambling to find another site, possibly a former state-run farm or land near a race track, the daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported.

Earlier in the year Jordan had called for the homeless to be set to work on a state-run farm.

In between, there were black and white photographs from Kim's youth, and more recent images of his widely ridiculed visits to state-run farms and factories.

Others could be paid to work on state-run farms.

They are biding their time in the citrus orchards and dilapidated buildings of what was once a state-run farm about 15 miles away.

They seem to enjoy the prescribed life of a state-run farm, with its limited set of choices, including whom to vote for in today's elections.