The factory manager reported he was certain that about 80 percent of Russians in Ivanova would prefer to go back to the old Soviet economic system? Why would so many Russians prefer the old economic system to the new one?

maybe by travelers or gossip

this means that germany had to pay the allied countries. reparations are/is essentially payment for something that they have done wrong, so after ww1, germany was forced to pay reparations so they could replenish the allied countries resources' that they had lost during the war.

the correct answer is to reduce tax

they were citizens but they could not vote and they did could not get involved into a political situation during that time.