(Putin Art) Russian economy

Mon Sep 2 21:32:35 UTC 2013

Ø  It really pays to know the facts:

Indeed

Ø  Russia never was "second economy in the world

Not even from the immediate post-war period until the  late(ish) 1970s?

In any case, its image as such lingered on far after it ceased to be true. 

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