All the measures I recommended were accepted, and special grants of money were given for aiding the emigration of some and for supplying cattle to others, as I had suggested.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “All the measures I recommended were accepted, and special grants of money were given for aiding the emigration of some…”
Editor's note · Context
Kropotkin recounts how his recommendations for aiding the Cossacks were accepted, reflecting on the bureaucratic process of implementing aid.
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