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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Thats all fine and well except the Soviet Union wasn't dependent on the people they threatened for hard currency, food, oil and medicine. But you're 100% right in that they were living in their own deluded reality and its something most just couldn't understand unless they lived there or experienced it first hand.
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I recommend that you more closely read about the era that I lived through. US grain sales to the Soviet Union averted famine in Russia more than once - and was not paid for in anything like gold or hard currency - or even soft currency. It was paid for in "credits".
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