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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: should come in with himself, and be allowed to sit in the
wings at the side of the stage. On the stage were
Rostopchin, Radek, Larin and various members of the
Communist Party Committee in the district. Everything
was ready, but the orchestra went on with its jig music on
the other side of the curtain. A message was sent to them.
The music stopped with a jerk. The curtain rose, disclosing
a crowded auditorium. Everbody stood up, both on the
stage and in the theater, and sang, accompanied by the
orchestra, first the "Internationale" and then the song for
those who had died for the revolution. Then except for two
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