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The development and procurement of armaments has been an important motive factor in R&D and technological development, and not only in Eastern and Central Europe. In Poland it was in practice driven not so much by the Cold War directly as by pressure from the former Soviet Union, demanding that Poland contribute its share to the Warsaw Pact and COMECON. The result, however, was that militarily oriented research and production became quite important, and constituted a relatively modern and well organised sector of the economy which, moreover, was a successful exporter.
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Zacher, L.W. (1996). Observations On The Socio-Political And Cultural Context Of Military Conversion: A Polish View. In: Gummett, P., Boutoussov, M., Farkas, J., Rip, A. (eds) Military R&D after the Cold War. NATO ASI Series, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1730-9_16
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