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   XPost: soc.culture.baltics, soc.culture.czecho-slovak, soc.culture.russian   
   From: ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com   
      
   In article ,   
    valtsu  wrote:   
      
   > DK wrote:   
   > > In article , valtsu   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >>The importance of this trade to the USSR can be seen from old foreign   
   > >>trade statistics. Tiny Finland was constantly one of the three biggest   
   > >>trading partners of the USSR outside the socialist block up until the   
   > >>early 1980-s. During several years it was the number one trading partner   
   > >>  surpassing economies such as West Germany, USA or Japan.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > Except that you got it backward. That statistics shows the   
   > > importance of this trade to *Finland* and says *absolutely nothing*   
   > > about its importance to the USSR.   
   > >   
   >   
   > I dissagree. The foreign trade statistics referred to concern USSR trade   
   > with non-socialist countries, not Finnish trade with non-socialist   
   > countries.   
      
   I don't see how either of your conclusions follows. To get yours, you   
   first have to know how important trade with non-socialist countries was   
   to the USSR.   
      
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