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Despite her victory over the Soviets, the Constituent Assembly has not been victorious in fixing Russia's internal problems. While the political situation - for now - seems stable, Russia is still plagued with problems... quite literally. While agriculture is still a problem and famine is an issue across the country - though not as bad as some projections estimated, typhus and the last remnants of the Spanish flu are killing hundreds if not thousands daily because of devastation brought about by the Bolshevik Revolution and the resulting Civil War.
Regarding famine, the Russian Government will declare a ban on the exportation of agricultural produce until famine conditions across the nation are relieved. This should hopefully prevent the exportation of the 1920 Harvest and allow for future import-substitution once local yields improve. Financial credits will be given out to farmers in an effort to restore small-scale agriculture in preparation for the 1921 crop-season and agricultural excesses. While Europe is also suffering from varying levels of famine, the United States - and to a lesser extent Argentina and Canada - are producing agricultural excesses that should negate the food crisis in Russia until a revival of the agricultural sector is achieved. As such, the Russian government makes overtures to the aforementioned states, requesting humanitarian support and if that is not enough to secure foodstuffs, the Russian government offers the extraction and trade of natural resources as payment for the food. With the importation of food a major concern for the Russian state, this will not prevent future famines and this solution is only possible due to overproduction by several nations relatively unaffected by the Great War. A restructuring of Russian agriculture is needed along the basis of mechanization. However, despite mechanization ability to improve yields in relation to labor input, the Russian economy is not prepared or able to important/domestically produce the amount of farm equipment needed to dramatically increase individual and collective productivity. As such, the Russian Government will only make scant purchases of foreign equipment, focusing most of the debate regarding mechanization to future plans.
As for the issue of typhus and the Spanish flu, the Russian Government requests the help of the Red Cross in preventing a further degradation of the typhus epidemic, stating that without further assistance, at least 30 million people will contract the disease. To boost sanitation and promote the general welfare, agents in foreign countries will be tasked with purchasing foreign medical supplies including to but not limited to: carbolic acid (and derivative solutions), soap, as well as any other medical supplies that might be of use in combating not only typhus, but the other diseases that have rose up in the past few centuries. Distribution of these medical supplies will be done on a local level through the zemstvos and urban public health departments as the federal government is still legislating solutions and focusing on trying to deal with Russia's dire situation as a whole. To help reduce the internally displaced, efforts will be made at restoring food and fuel to Russia's major cities, focusing primarily on those cities hardest hit by emigration to the countryside. To reduce the burden on Russia's fragile railroad system and to limit further transmission of typhus - which is known to be spread from close contact to infected - efforts will be made to introduce social distancing on Russia's railroad system as well as other, prominent and high-density public spaces where the spread of disease is highly likely. These efforts will be delegated to the zemstvos and urban public health departments as part of the broader effort at combating typhus. However, if this is unable to be preformed, then the Russian Government will utilize the newly formed Territorial Army at enforcing these provisions until the pandemic is solved.
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