Right. The Soviet industrial base was heavily altered, but not destroyed. Lada is still pumping out cars. My horribly oppressed taxi driver was in a Lada. (A 2007 Lada is a lot better than a 1987 Soviet Lada.)
Like I said, outside of luxury goods and cheap imports of clothes from China and Belarus and electronics from Korea etc., Russia's consumer goods market is dominated by Russian manufacturers.
--- Dennis Redmond <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> Russia has quite an impressive industrial base,
> actually -- petrochem,
> metallurgy, food-processing, autos, high-tech
> (they're making some
> impressive videogames these days). Their investment
> rates need to be
> higher, sure. But Russia is not locked into
> neocolonialism the way Mexico
> or Brazil still are.
>
> -- DRR
>
>
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