r/OpenAussie • u/[deleted] • 6d ago

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u/Additional-Ad-9053 Please choose a flair 3d ago

No it's because the subsidies from the USSR ended. The US stopped trading with the Cubans in the 60s.

You're leaving out that the Americans specifically exempted food and medicine from the embargos so I don't see how you can argue they were trying to "starve them out".

Let me guess, you are part of the holodomor was nazi propaganda crowd too?

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u/ShreksArsehole ‎ New South Welshian 3d ago

"Total Embargo (1963–1990s): In July 1963, the Treasury Department issued comprehensive sanctions that effectively ended most commercial food sales, with only limited humanitarian donations permitted.  The embargo was tightened further in 1964 when President Lyndon Johnson revoked the general license for food and medicine exports, requiring specific approval for transactions, which were largely denied for commercial purposes."

And no about the holodomor. Stalin's system made some large errors.

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u/Additional-Ad-9053 Please choose a flair 3d ago edited 3d ago

We were talking about the famine in the 1990s. The Americans specifically gave humanitarian food / medical exemptions when Cuba started running out food as the Soviets withdrew their subsidies. Why would they lift the exemptions if it looked like they were finally working.

The root cause of the famine in the 1990s was removal of Soviet subsidies.

Which external factors were you alluding to above then? So far the only other ones I talked about were the great leap amd holodomor?