been broken and the revolution placed out of all danger.
But the Russian workers are not discouraged; they are fighting doggedly on in the face of the new difficulties. They are fired with a boundless confidence in themselves, kindled by the accomplishment of many "impossibilities." When they took hold of the Government the world said they could not maintain it for three weeks; yet here they are now, four years later, stronger politically than every. When they were distitute of organized armed forces and surrounded by a multitude of enemies the world said that they could not defend themselves and would be crushed; but they built up the Red Army and drove back all their foes. And thus it will be with their present overwhelming industrial problem: the world, always a pessimist, says it is insoluble and will ruin the revolution; but even as the Russian workers achieved the political and military "impossibilities," and made everyone admit it, so they will one day accomplish the industrial "impossibility" and make everyone admit that also. In my judgment the famine has not defeated the Rusian revolution; it has merely delayed for a while its final, full realization.
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