Please add punctuation to this: Difficult as our food and production situation is in the year and a half of Bolshevik rule there has been undoubted progress all along the line grain procurements have increased from 30 million poods from August 1 1917 to August 1 1918 to 100 million poods from August 1 1918 to May 1 1919 vegetable gardening has expanded the margin of unsown land has diminished railway transport has begun to improve despite the enormous fuel difficulties and so on Against this general background and with the support of the proletarian state power the shoots of communism will not wither they will grow and blossom into complete communism
Difficult as our food and production situation is, in the year and a half of Bolshevik rule there has been undoubted progress all along the line: grain procurements have increased from 30 million poods (from August 1, 1917 to August 1, 1918) to 100 million poods (from August 1, 1918 to May 1, 1919); vegetable gardening has expanded, the margin of unsown land has diminished, railway transport has begun to improve despite the enormous fuel difficulties, and so on. Against this general background, and with the support of the proletarian state power, the shoots of communism will not- wither; they will grow and blossom into complete communism.