Business Interests Breaking Down the Communist Idea The following account of business conditions and opportunities in Russia is one of a number of letters received by a gentleman in Shanghai from a British business man. The latter writes from Warsaw, Poland, and his account of business conditions is as follows—
TI have at last made my long delayed visit to Moscow and examined the Soviet situation for myself, on the spot. It is at once evident upon arriving there that the Communistic idea is breaking down in every direction. The exchanges are alive with speculators: produce markets are just as busy as before the Revolution: street vendors are openly buying and selling on the old lines, and the shops would be fully occupied also, but practically no manufacture ig going on in the workshops throughout Russia, and there is no money with which to purchase goods from abroad.
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