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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: In the same districts we have any quantity of wool, and in
some of these districts corn. We cannot, in the present
condition of our transport, even get this corn for ourselves.
In the same way we have great quantities of rice in Turkestan,
and actually are being offered rice from Sweden,
because we cannot transport our own. Then we have over a
million poods of copper, ready for export on the same
conditions. But it is clear that if the Western countries are
unable to help in the transport, they cannot expect to get raw
materials from us."
I asked about platinum. He laughed.
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