Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Mendoza, Enrique G.; Tesar, Linda L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
decentralize Soviet decision making but made it difficult for Finnish authorities to
identify those with real authority on the …. Political leaders in Finland and the USSR viewed trade as a guarantee of
peaceful co-existence. For example, Urho Kekkonen, the … we do keep the Soviet markets.” Third, the
Soviet subsidy was aimed at maintaining political status quo in Finland where …