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The taxes they paid on both state and everyday items were increased and they had all their surplus grain sold abroad to pay off the interest payments on the loans from the Foreign Investors. Poor harvests in both 1900 and 1902 were the "icing on the cake" so to speak,
Russians looked upon Japan as inferior nation and no match for themselves but unfortunately they were extraordinarily wrong. Russia greatly underestimated the strengths of Japan, the Japanese army were far better prepared. Russian lost Manchuria, Korea and Port Author to Japan.
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