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   XPost: soc.culture.baltics, soc.culture.czecho-slovak, soc.culture.russian   
   From: ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com   
      
   In article ,   
    holman@mappi.helsinki.fi (Eugene Holman) wrote:   
      
   > The Finns and the Soviet Union did their trade according to a special   
   > bilateral agreement using a barter-based clearing system denominated in   
   > dollars and roughly determined by fluctuating world market prices.   
      
   I thought you, or at least people on your side of the argument, were   
   claiming that the Finns got a better deal than world market prices would   
   have given them. Was I mistaken?   
      
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