http://www.imz-ural.com/wolf/ ____________________________________ Travis W Fast
>
> 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:
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>
>
> > 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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