On the recordMarch 28, 1996
It could have been any product, for that matter, but the basic point is that we are trying to move Russia toward a market economy, something that the former Soviet Union did not do. That was a command economy. Everyone says Russia ought to become a market economy, and obviously the United States and other countries in the West have a role to play in that. It seems to me this effort of the President was part and parcel of trying to move Russia in the direction of becoming a free market system and of participating in the global economy.
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