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Subject: Re: Empires:  History Question - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 7-Nov-83 23:04:00 EST
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fortune!norskog    Nov  7 17:54:00 1983

The Soviet Union is the first empire in history which supplies its
satellites, rather than the other way around.  It is squandering its
vast but mismanaged resources on small mismanaged colonies.