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armored airplanes, cars, trucks, and trains; colossal factories of agitprop; and most of all, a
continent-sized army of enforcers possessed of warm clothing, boots, food, medicine, reliable
rifles and ammunition at a time when the economic catastrophe of War Communism meant
such things were lacked by nearly everyone else in Russia. Waging a pitiless war on their own
people, the Bolsheviks succeeded in monopolizing not only force, but the very means of
human subsistence, reducing the once-wealthy land they ruled to a bitter penury which
endures to this day. But the Russian Bolsheviks did not create the grotesquely distorted
socio-economic system of Communism alone. In the final chapters of the drama, readers will
be introduced to the bankers and middlemen who, for a price, helped the Bolsheviks launder
the loot from the heist of the century.