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The Role of the Ogres

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Based on an analysis showing the poor prospects of economic growth in the Soviet Union, a NATO publication in 1974 concludes

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  1. K. Bush, “Soviet Economic Growth: Past, Present, and Projected.” NATO Review, No. 1, 1974, p. 25. For asimilar estimate, demonstrating NATO’s continuous interest in weakening the influence of the “Soviet model” in the Third World, see also NATO Review, July-August 1971, p. 17.

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  2. For a general survey of Western multinationals in the East, see Ch. Levinson, International Trade Unionism. Allen & Unwin, London, 1972, ch. 5.

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  3. International Herald Tribune, February 14, 1973.

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  4. Financial Times, March 21, 1973. On July 7, 1975 the Soviet Vneschtorgbank informed the readers of the Western financial press that it had borrowed 250 million dollars with the help of, among others, the Morgan Guaranty Trust, the biggest of all the Western multi national banks.

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  29. International Herald Tribune, September 3, 1973. In fact, Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola already have some 25 plants in Eastern Europe (Moscow Narodny Bank, Press Bulletin, March 20, 1974).

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Adler-Karlsson, G. (1976). The Role of the Ogres. In: The Political Economy of East-West-South Co-operation. Studien über Wirtschafts- und Systemvergleiche. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-37902-8_8

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