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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: paper industry is typical of all, in a country which, it should
not be forgotten, could be in a position to supply wood-pulp
for other countries besides itself. The factories are able to
produce only sixty per cent. of demands that have
previously, by the strictest scrutiny, been reduced to a
minimum before they are made. The reasons, apart from
the lack of nets and cloths, are summed up in absence of
food, forage and finally labor. Even when wood is brought
by river the trouble is not yet overcome. The horses are
dead and eaten or starved and weak. Factories have to cease
working so that the workmen, themselves underfed, can drag
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