President Herbert Hoover and the American Relief Administration organized the import of food into the Soviet Union during the early 1920s.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
Multiple sources confirm that Herbert Hoover, as Commerce Secretary, organized the American Relief Administration's famine relief and food shipments to Soviet Russia in 1921-1923. The claim's 'President' title is anachronistic, since sources call him the 'future president' at that time, but this peripheral detail does not affect the core assertion.
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… This is how we're going to rationalize everything on the model of behavioralist psychology. Um, and my God, even in the, you know, the early 20s, the starvation had already set in. President Hoover and the American Relief Administration organized the import of vast quantities of food, but they were also exporting wheat in order to earn money for, you know, German revolutionaries. Um You can't claim to be opposed to Bolshevism while you're financing it. Um, and that was just the very beginning. …
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Supports. The Library of Congress exhibit states that in 1921 President Harding appointed Herbert Hoover, then secretary of commerce, to organize the famine relief effort in Soviet Russia.[1][3]
Supports. Britannica reports that the American Relief Administration, headed by the future U.S. president Herbert Hoover, fed most of the starving in Soviet Russia during the 1921-23 famine, with shipments of food to Bolshevik Russia.[4]
Supports. The Hoover Institution and Hoover archives describe the ARA, led by Hoover, running a large-scale relief effort in Soviet Russia from 1921 through 1923, including American corn shipments.[2][5]
Context. The ARA Russia records describe the relief mission as delivering lifesaving food and medicine into the stricken country, which is consistent with the claim's description of food imports.[6]
Sources
6 sources: 2 primary, 4 not rated
- 1The Soviet Union and the United States - Revelations from the ...wwws.loc.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 2American Relief Administrationhoover.archives.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Early Cooperation: American Famine Relief - Ibiblioibiblio.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4American Relief Administration | American organizationbritannica.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5“Give Bread And Medicine” | Hoover ...hoover.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6American Relief Administration in Soviet Russia: Introduction ...guides.hoover.org · not rated · cited for: context
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