This YouTube video seems to be the PBS episode mentioned - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmCsztQz4s0
Different times, different behaviors. Now Yemen is ravaged by famine and the US is droning it.
Hmm, this article doesn't mention the allied invasion of russia (of which the US was a major part) that ended in 1920. Sure, the US was a great humanitarian but also contributed to their being a famine!
Then another famine was created to sell wheat to pay Americans for factories. It is usually shown as Ukrainian genocide, but when you look at absolute numbers, large areas of greater Russia and present-day Kazakhstan were affected to the same extent.
This article makes no mention of the role the Wilson administration likely played in creating the famine to begin with. Following 1917, anglo-american support of fascist paramilitary groups in Russia led to the bloodiest civil war in history.
In line with the same type of intentionally forgotten history, US investors and business persons built and provided a large portion of the Soviet industrial capabilities prior to WW2 [1], which the Soviets later pretended were their own accomplishments. It's a theme that repeats throughout all of Soviet history, where Communist propaganda collides with market economy prosperity, on up to the famous 1959 Kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev [2], or Yeltsin's visit to the Texas supermarket [3].
Communism universally, completely failed at providing superior material prosperity, which was one of its most touted foundational claims. Worse, it failed at providing nearly any consistent materialism at all, as witnessed by the second great Soviet famine under Stalin in 1932-33 [4], in which millions of people perished.
[1] http://www.americanheritage.com/content/how-america-helped-b...
[2] http://adst.org/2015/07/nixon-vs-khrushchev-the-1959-kitchen...
[3] https://blog.chron.com/thetexican/2014/04/when-boris-yeltsin...
[4] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/re...
While often disparaged these days, the US has long been one of the most charitable countries in the world both in terms of private citizen contributions and public government aid. Glad to see some of the good deeds finally being recognized!