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   From: kurkku@hassuserveri.fi   
      
   "James A. Donald"  kirjoitti   
   viestissä:pm3g94dt6ihln7b86a4d8egh3cq3b3kfae@4ax.com...   
   > Eugene Holman:   
   >> I didn't write "colony", I wrote "economic colony". If   
   >> you have ever visited a *Beriozka* hard-currency shop   
   >> in the USSR and seen the selection of Finnish-made   
   >> products sold for hard-currency only, or observed   
   >> Soviet consumers in a feeding frenzy feeding frenzy   
   >> because a consignment of Finnish-made nylons,   
   >> galoshes, or raincoats had been put on sale at their   
   >> local shop, you know what I mean. The Finns imported   
   >> cheap oil, natural gas, cotton, wood, and industrial   
   >> chemicals from the USSR and used them to produce   
   >> consumer goods that they sold back to the Soviets at   
   >> many times the price. That is the classic model of   
   >> economic colonialism.   
   >   
   > That would be a classic model of economic colonialism if   
   > the Finns were paid with real money instead of entirely   
   > worthless rubles.   
   >   
   And what would the Finns possibly have done with these worthless roubles? It   
   is nice to see we have an expert around.   
      
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