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...Angered by that earlier decision, farmers had threatened to withhold their produce from government markets, a move that would have sharply aggravated the country's already critical food shortages. The farmers had even talked of a strike unless their right to organize was recognized. Plans for both the embargo and the strike were shelved after the supreme court decision. Said Farm Leader Zdzislaw Ostatek: "We don't see any need to use pressure...
There was a long queue last week at the bread shop on Leningrad's Nevsky Prospekt. "They are selling special holiday loaves," explained a woman in line, as she stamped her feet against the cold. Yes, she knew about the U.S. grain embargo, imposed a year ago this week. "But it hasn't affected us," she insisted...
Most agricultural experts agree with her. The embargo declared by President Carter on Jan. 4, 1980, in response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan has yet to cost the Soviet peasant his beloved loaf of black bread or cause serious disruptions in the Soviet economy. Yet the experts add that the limit on farm sales to Moscow may still have a long-term impact on the development of Soviet agriculture, especially on meat production...
...mystery how Moscow coped with the grain embargo. Once the Soviets were cut off from all but 8 million of the 27.5 million metric tons of grain they wanted from the U.S., they simply began offering premium prices to other grain-exporting countries. Argentina, which refused to honor the embargo from the beginning, increased its export earnings last year by an estimated 30% through sales to the Soviets. In November, Canada and Spain announced that they were stepping up exports to the Soviet Union. The Canadians originally supported the boycott but then withdrew from it because they claimed that American...
...embargo disrupted Soviet imports noticeably for only a few months. By the end of 1980, the Soviets had been able to buy elsewhere all but about a few million tons of the grain they wanted. A U.S. Department of Agriculture official now quietly concedes that what began as a "powerful political statement" ended as an "economic failure...