 Western Russia was still farmland, much like the Ukraine, the deported. But the raw materials were in the east, and the only way they could get them was through rail. Before that, they, you know, it took a long time to get those raw materials to the productive plants of Western Russia. But they put in the railroad, and it changed everything. So when it comes down to it, if you want to survive, you have to go back to a productive economy that produces something.