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   [Followup-To: soc.culture.nordic, soc.culture.baltics]   
      
   James A. Donald kirjoitti:   
   > 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.   
      
   Except that Finns were *not* paid in rubles. Why are you repeating false   
   claims that have been corrected several times? Do you think your false   
   claims become the truth if you repeat them often enough?   
      
   However I think Eugene is overstating by using the word 'economic   
   colonialism' in this context.   
      
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   Anton   
      
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