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The Great American Grain Robbery

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Investigative journalist martha hamilton finds out more about a trade deal, which became known as the great grain robbery. The russians were to buy a quarter of america's total crop of winter wheat in 19 72. But outsiders knew nothing of this, not them. Taxpayers subsidized the cost of grain to the soviet union.

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