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3 copies. Moscow now wants to improve trade relations with England; Russia now frightened by Germany; Russia lacks skilled labor and her industrial machinery on verge of breakdown; because U.S. would not supply Russia with machinery and England could not because of her own rearmament program, Russia was forced into a trade agreement with Germany - exchange of oil from Russia for machinery from Germany; Germany fell down on production of machinery because of lack of iron, so Stalin decided no machinery, no oil, causing deadlock in German-Russian relations and explaining why Russia wants commercial treaty with England.