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>embarked on a famine relief program

the bolsheviks sold to the West heaps of art pieces and treasures from museums and expropriated private collections - for food and other vital goods. that would largely explain the "relief program".



Relief program was a _relief program_. Free as in beer.

Why do you think treasures were involved is beyond me.




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