He just did not listen well enough. Watching the seemingly failed applicant he still hid any sign of emotions, but of course there were thoughts. 'You failed already once. On failure is acceptable...a second one will kill you...or bring you even worse things...'
Although he followed the Commisar with the same self confident walk he just used to enter the waiting room. Alexej was not sure whether the Commisar on the opposite of the desk was one of the bad ones or one of the even worse ones. It was hard, if not even impossible to completely do what they want, but the chance to serve the Coalition was worth it. Thinking for some moments Alexej tried to choose his words well, to avoid another failure.
"A great benefit of the new economic policy is of course that we opened ourselves to those who understand what we are doing. Together, we are strong, isolated our ideals would be doomed. That sounds quite simple, but it is exactly what the communism, our communism, wants to and will reach. But a more direct influence has the fast development of JaingXi, which could only be reached by the more open economy policy. But also, this concession to the weak capitalistic world out there made many of those fools doubt whether their way of live is so right. Sick of fighting for the benefit of others they support us instead, if as workers in our factories or on the battlefield, doesn't matter. And all this litle successes combined reveal the -real- benefit the new economic policy brought to the Coalition: A general increase of our capabilities, opportunties and the ongoing weakening of the Alliance controlled Sirius"
Alexej did not dare to lean back, even if he would do it right now under normal circumstances.
Squished bigly ~Champ- Thanks, you're a champ. "What's the word for when it feels inside your heart that everything in the world is all right?"