A vertical integration consists of companies that acquire a company that operates either before or after the acquiring company in the production process.
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, the best option by far is that he was a "ruthless leader who often killed and/or sent away those who disagreed with him". He knew that the USSR was a very new and fragile entity that needed to be protected relentlessly. </span>
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Farmers would have to be the correct answer.
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