There were no sanctions on the Soviet Union until the 1970s.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The claim is contradicted by the sources, which document US and Western sanctions on the Soviet Union well before the 1970s, including a 1933 British measure, the 1948 US export restrictions, and the 1949 Export Control Act. The post's claim that the sources refer to in the 1970s is not supported by the historical record given here.
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… These weren't opposed ideological systems. They may have had divergent interests in certain parts of the world, but ideologically they had, they had no problem with each other, or at least the capitalists had no problem with the, with the Reds. There were no sanctions on the Soviet Union, not until the Jews were involved in the, in the 'seventies. All Soviets debts were, uh, from World War II were canceled. Uhm, the entire economy was built by Western technicians who then trained their Soviet counterpart. …
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Contradicts. A CSET/Georgetown primary study on Cold War sanctions lists 1933 British sanctions on the Soviet Union as a case study, which is decades before the 1970s.[1]
Contradicts. Ohio State's Origins project reports that the 1949 Export Control Act gave authority to control US trade with the Soviet bloc, and that Washington sought to limit strategic exports to the Soviet bloc during the early Cold War.[2]
Contradicts. The American Foreign Relations sourcebook states that in 1948 the United States began an economic sanctions campaign against the Soviet Union that lasted more than fifty years, with restrictions announced in March 1948 and formalized in the 1949 Export Control Act.[4]
Context. The Harvard DASH study of Cold War economic policy notes that the US threatened or imposed economic sanctions 26 times between 1960 and 1975, and that the COCOM export-control regime was set up early in the Cold War.[1][3]
Context. The Brill chapter on post-WWII sanctions describes a period from 1945 to 1990 characterized by embargoes and export controls between Western states and the Soviet bloc.[5]
Sources
5 sources: 3 primary, 2 not rated
- 1From Cold War Sanctions to Weaponized Interdependencecset.georgetown.edu · primary source · cited for: contradicts, context
- 2A Century of Sanctions | Originsorigins.osu.edu · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 3[PDF] Economic Aspects of the Cold War, 1962-1975 - DASH (Harvard)dash.harvard.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 4Embargoes and Sanctions - Cold war sanctionsamericanforeignrelations.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5Chapter 1 The History and Effectiveness of Economic ...brill.com · not rated · cited for: context
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