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		bcoates on Jan 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Toshiba says they made a mistake but they still ca... The Free World won the war against Communism through economic warfare, surely Toshiba contributed to that impoverishing them by $517 million of hard currency for weapons they never got to use?

frenchy on Jan 4, 2014 [–]

Not necessarily. That $517 million would very likely have been spent on attempts to reproduce the technology themselves, not on economic development.

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