This sort of division, that turns the European economy into a tale of two worlds, reflects a deep underlying ideology, a vestige of the collapse Soviet model, which presumes that bureaucrats rather than markets know best how resources should be allocated.

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The anti-aircraft weapon I used was a 1940s era model from the Soviet Union.

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The person Shamsaddinov fought with was parked by the side of the road in a Soviet-era Zhiguli, the ubiquitous model favored for cheapness rather than quality.

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Add to this its position at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union, and Turkey is the very model of a modern major pivot state.

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And as a result, Iran will respond as the Soviet Union did to a deterrent model based on mutually assured destruction.

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