Lithuania requires compensation for damage of the USSR Part 2
Now let’s review what the real scenario. At the time of joining the Soviet Union, Lithuania was an essentially agrarian country, where 74% of the population was employed in the field and only 7% in industry. Its industrial production was three times lower than the average for the Soviet Union occupies one of the last places in Europe in terms of living standards indicators. The low industrial potential was completely destroyed during the war years and the losses of those years are estimated at 38 billion dollars. As part of the USSR, Lithuania was able to develop its economy to a much greater extent than it would have permitted only with its GDP, which allowed him to recover quickly from losses caused by war and the creation of a completely new industrial fabric. As is clear from the calculations to analyze the period between 1965 and 1990, the net benefit that drew its membership through Lithuania to the USSR and the division of labor between the member Republics, the difference between the resources consumed and production of value added, yield a surplus of 30 billion dollars. A profit largely due to the potential provided by the Russian Federation and the republic with more weight at all levels of resource production and industrial production of all the republics of the USSR. The construction times in Lithuania exceeded 1.5 times the average indicators of the USSR. Between 1940 and 1990 in the development of the Lithuanian economy was invested 65 billion dollars. Were developed chemical and petrochemical industry, nuclear power. Its oil refinery was 12 million tonnes per year. The nuclear power plant that closed just had a generating capacity of 2,500 megawatts. Pulp companies were built, yards … Only in the construction of the factory machinery Zalguiris firms participated in over 40 cities throughout the Union. In the construction of hydroelectric and thermal power plants involving 200 companies of the Soviet Union. In the agroindustrial complex of Lithuania many more resources invested in the complex equivalent in other regions of the USSR. Specifically in the ninth Five Year Plan (1971-1975) the investment was 3’8 times more per hectare, compared to the average indicator of the USSR. Investment in land improvement, social development in rural areas, construction of roads was much higher than in the rest of the Union. In 1990 this indicator was 70% versus 3% through the rest of the USSR. All this allowed Lithuania to multiply by 85 industrial production volume in the period between 1940 and 1990. Lithuania also received an inheritance from the Soviet Union a powerful material and technical base (military garrisons, airfields, warehouses, border checkpoints), whose creation was borne entirely by the general budget of the Union. The value of all such facilities exceeds 6,300 billion dollars. It should be added to the above that the economic development of Lithuania was subsidized by shipments of energy resources, oil, gas, chemicals, etc. at prices well below international prices. The gain in the exchange of production with the other republics of the Union can be estimated at 35 billion dollars.
Its socio-economic infrastructure was developed at high speed: 33 000 were built miles of roads, 36 million m2 of housing, schools with a capacity of 627 000 seats, 217 thousand people of childcare and other services to children, hospitals with capacity for 28 thousand beds, and so on.
Let the reader judge who owes whom. If Russia follow the path Lithuanian and claim compensation for all the resources invested in the development of the Lithuanian economy, the figure would be around 72 billion dollars. We imagine that this 2010 to be held on 65th anniversary of victory over fascism, it will be for the present rulers of Lithuania, which so long for the troops of the Wehrmacht, a bad year.
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