it looks like we are complete. we start this segment in the summer of 1921, and in that summer, soviet russia is the scene of a catastrophic famine, as george nash mentioned earlier. millions are threatened with starvation and disease. most of them, as you will see in a moment, i will have a map up, were situated in the volga river valley. the soviet government led by vladimir lenin is unable to cope with the disaster on its own, so it is forced to allow an appeal to go out for foreign assistance and at that time, on that day, in the summer of 1921, there is only one man on the planet in a position to answer that call, and that of course is the man you see here. that is herbert hoover, as chairman of the american relief administration, the a.r.a. as george nash told us, since 1919 the a.r.a. is a private relief organization, relief agency. but i would say really, at least for this part of the hoover humanitarian story, we should say it is quasi-private. hoover is the secretar
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