So the west got the telecom sector of the former Soviet Satellite countries but Russia got the more vital energy sector. The intentional buying and closing of factories in Eastern Europe by Western Europe to avoid competition from the cheap labour seems to have played into the hands of Moscow. Do you know how they transport the gas and oil to Eastern Europe? If any significant amount of it is done by rail that gives Russia and its former Satellite countries mutual national interests with the railways that Moscow built in the Soviet era. Who supplies the F.R.Y with oil and gas?
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