Ka cika wannan jumla: Jimlar hatsi da aka girbe a Soviet (39.6 miliyan tan) ita ce ta biyu mafi ƙanƙanta a tarihin Soviet, ta gaba da girbin 1921 (36.2 miliyan tan). Koyaya, girbin 1946 an noma shi a kan yanki mafi girma fiye da girbin 1921, kamar yadda Tarayyar Soviet a halin yanzu ta haɗu da ƙasashen Baltic,
Bessarabia da Bucovina, da kuma gabashin Poland, don haka ƙara yawan ƙasar da za a girbe. Kamar yadda ɗan tarihi Stephen G. Wheatcroft ya nuna, ba shi da sauƙi a faɗi ainihin yawan amfanin gona na Soviet a lokacin domin an yi ƙarya sosai a ƙididdigar gwamnatin Soviet, wasu daga cikinsu wasu masana tarihi sun ɗauka cewa gaskiya ne.