THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1152, sig. 109-4/906

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Others claim that the price-stop in connection with the shortage of goods is virtually impossible to prevent. However, the price stop is an anot of the foreign exchange-grense principle, whose break-through could cause far greater economic damage. Others explain that a fundamental fight against and eradication of the smuggling trade is technically impossible. One cannot put a German police officer behind every Poland. However, the last explanation is to be mentioned that the smuggling trading is the only way to ensure the feeding of the population half way. If the provisions were strictly adhered to, at least half of the population would be effectively hungry, but the most important would be able to obtain the most necessary.