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World Service,13 Feb 1997,27 mins

USSR Economic Power

Reports From the Silk Road

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Many industries in Central Asia were little more than assembly plants reliant on the USSR. The Tashkent tractor factory used steel from the Urals, aluminium from Tajikistan and engines from Russia.

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