[PEN-L:444] Fw: Re: Kagarlitsky responds to Hiatt

["Frank Durgin" <fdurgin1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On october 7
Dennis  Redmond   wrote.
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>  The Soviet
> Union sold a hell of a lot of oil and gas on world markets, but that's
all
> it was able to sell.

   Here are some figures necessay to place that statement in context
	
	Oil and gas accounted for between 40 and 50% of Soviet exports.
And that accouinted for a little over 31%
of domestic production of oil and gas.
7.4% of Soviet output of tractors was exported (considerable number's of
Soviet made "Belarus"
tractors were exported to the US) 32% of
Soviet output of paper making machinery and equipment was exported.
 29% of its output of textile machinery,
10.4% of its ouput of equipment for producting chemcials,
11.7% of its printing equipment, somre 6% of its  of machine tools
 28.4% of its production of automobiles 36.5% of its cameras, 27.8% oif it
clocks and watches.
Source; narodnoye khozyastvo SSSR v 1990