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With concerns growing about the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global food supply,

we're returning to 1972, when grain shortages in the former USSR made prices sore around the world.

I've been finding out more about a trade deal which became known as the Great Grain Robbery.

During the Nixon-Breschen robbery. were to buy a quarter of America's total crop of winter wheat, but outsiders knew nothing of this, not then. I would define it as a really bad deal by the United States with the USFAR.

This is American investigative journalist Martha Hamilton.

Prices went up very rapidly because Russia and Ukraine together produced so much grain on the world market that any change in their

purchasing patterns has the huge effect.

But the deal was a steal for Moscow. The Soviet Union got cheap food

thanks to the American taxpayer. That's why it became known as the Great Grain

Robbery. U.S. taxpayers subsidize the cost of grain to the Soviet Union.

Soviet Union was able to buy the grain much cheaper than it had expected to be able to buy the grain.

In 1972, Martha Hamilton was working for a farming organization in Washington.

Our focus was on hoping to save family farmers from the growing industrial farming that was becoming the norm in the United States.

As part of that I started looking at the international grain trade.

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