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by m4nu3l 33 days ago
What's interesting to me is that this is a bit like how the USSR worked.

They were relying on the West for high-tech tractors and even to build factories (I know Ford helped them build some factories for a part of the factory output). I also know they used to look at the allocation of goods in the US as a starting point to decide what to produce, as they were basically running blind to what people needed or wanted.

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Mikhail Gorbachev: "The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes."