A Reliable Alliance (3)

Kokovtsov's wartime system.

When the three elements - rationing system, market price controls, and wartime special laws - harmoniously settled into the empire.

Other countries, both Central and Entente Powers alike, rushed to attempt system transformations.

Until last year, no country except us had envisioned a long war, but this battlefield called trenches finally twisted the existing war plans of each nation's leadership.

Germany prohibited market trading of meat and sugar.

With food imports difficult due to Britain's naval blockade, they said the state would distribute domestic food resources.

Similarly, Britain, severely hit by German submarines, announced the implementation of rationing.

They couldn't stand by watching butter, margarine, lard, meat, sugar, and salt prices go mad in half a year.

France essentially gave up on its economy.