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   From: kurkku@hassuserveri.fi   
      
   "David Friedman"  kirjoitti   
   viestissä:ddfr-A58B03.11471317082008@CA.NEWS.VERIO.NET...   
   > In article   
   > ,   
   > holman@mappi.helsinki.fi (Eugene Holman) wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > Let me expand on that last question. Suppose the Finns send the Russians   
   > a bunch of baggy suits in 1960, get oil in exchange in 1962. Is what   
   >   
   Why should anyone suppose anything like that? Don't you believe that your   
   well of big thoughts have drained and you should seek more fertile pastures?   
   Perhaps your shrink can help you out of this. It is funny that you have   
   energy to blather about something you know nothing about.   
   >   
   >> Summa summarum. The Finns were big-time winners in Finnish-Soviet trade.   
   >> It would not be as indstrialized, prosperous, and competitive in the   
   >> world   
   >> marketplace today, or have the engineering and marketing expertise to run   
   >> this industrial infrastructure had it not been for the radical changes   
   >> forced on and undergone by the initially primarily agrarian and   
   >> forestry-based Finnish economy between 1944 and 1952.   
   >   
   > That's your assertion, I'm sure you believe it, and it might even be   
   > true. But I don't see how you can have adequate basis for believing it.   
   >   
   http://www.bof.fi/bofit/tutkimus/kirjat/tiivistelma/finsovcl.htm   
      
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