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by Robert W. Pelton (Author)
Six multinational grain dealers control all grain leaving the United States -- Cargill, Andre, Bunge, Cook and Dreyfus. Ninety percent of Continental Grain of New York was owned by one of the world's wealthiest families -- the Fribourgs. When Jules ran the company back in the 1930s he handled millions of tons of grain sales for the murderous Stalin regime. The entire Russian grain crop had been confiscated from the peasant farmers under a diabolical plan of mass starvation devised and executed by a Neanderthal monster known as Nikita Khrushchev. The infamous famine was deliberately created from 1932-1935 as a direct result. Roughly 14.5 million men, women, and children were methodically starved to death in the Ukraine alone. The Kennedy Administration wheat giveaways to Communist Occupied Russia in 1961 should have erupted into a national scandal. According to Congressman D.L. Latta on August 4, 1961: "Officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Commerce Department agreed to sell surplus wheat to the Soviet Union for $.62 per bushel less than the baker who bakes your bread pays for it. "Some wheat shipped to the Soviets and their puppets is used to make ethyl alcohol. "This in turn is used for manufacturing such war-related items as TNT, missile fuel, and poison gas!" In 1963, Communist Occupied Russia was sold $200 million worth of wheat. Senator Thomas Dodd later noted on September 9, 1965: "The wheat was not sold at the price which the government had paid the American farmer, but at the artificially low world price, so that the American government, in effect, was subsidizing the Soviet Union." Dodd pointed out at the time of the wheat deal that "subsidized agricultural commodities should not be made available to the Soviet Union or to countries dominated by the USSR." "Sweetheart deals with the Reds are extensive and have been for decades," charged Joseph Mehrten. "In fact, so extensive is this U.S. aid that without it Soviet leaders not only could not pursue expansionist policies but would be powerless and overthrown." Continental was instrumental in selling $78.5 million worth of American wheat to Communist Occupied Russia in 1964. The Johnson Administration subsidized $24 million of this package -- almost one-third the entire cost! Such a sweetheart deal enabled the USSR to purchase U.S. wheat at a price lower than could friendly nations. Cargill of Minneapolis sold $53 million worth of U.S. wheat to the same Soviet murderers. American taxpayer's again subsidized the sale -- this time for $18 million. In just a little over a month over 65 million bushels of subsidized wheat was shipped to the Soviet slave empire. Communist Occupied Russia in turn shipped tons of subsidized American wheat to Cuba, Romania, and other satellite dictatorships! This was done in order to strengthen the USSR's grip on these Captive Nations. On the other hand, American grains and other food commodities were being traded or given away to some non-Communist nations, who in turn shipped them to the Reds! For example, in 1964, Nasser received $1 billion in grains and other agricultural products from the United States. The Egyptian government turned around and shipped 314,000 tons of these food commodities to Communist Occupied Russia, East Germany, Romania, China, Hungary, Cuba, and Bulgaria. The USSR is unquestionably history's largest food importer. Even in its best years, the Soviets produce far less food than does the United States. This is accomplished with 50 percent more land under cultivation and an incredible 1,000 percent more farm workers. Despite this they're still unable to produce enough food to feed the people. Charles R. Armour noted in 1986: "The premise that the Soviet Union is feeding its people, supporting its utopian society, creating its industrial, technological, and military capabilities as a socialistic state is the height of absurdity."
