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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: succeed in finding their way out of the quagmire of
industrial ruin in which they are involved. I can only say
that they are unlikely to find their way out by any other
means. I think this is instinctively felt in Russia. Not
otherwise would it have been possible for the existing
organization, battling with one hand to save the towns front
starvation, to destroy with the other the various forces
clothed and armed by Western Europe, which have
attempted its undoing. The mere fact of continued war has,
of course, made progress in the solution of the economic
problem almost impossible, but the fact that the economic
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