come uinhe bumper between thepeakers you'll see that there those posters were distributed across the coury like i think it hundred printed, 105, 120,000 copies of those posters. so this is a dining hall in, petrograd today, st petersburg. this is a village kitchen somewhere in the district, southeastern and the volga. and one of my favorite photos. this is these are in t in exhibit, by the way. another volga village kitchen interi to get an interior in those days. so in october 1921, once the americans had fanned across the famine zone and were feeding stations, and you see a few of them here, eventually they number about thousand total lenin and company lenin and his colleagues begin to see the array again as an opportunity. and in october, lenin writes in a note to the people's commissar of foreign affairs, georg, you, chairman hoover, all in caps. hoover is a real underline. this is a striking change of tone, of course. and again, several days later agreements were in concessions with. the americans are super important to us. with hoover, we have something worthwhile. lenin argued that