Insofar as Germany's leading financial institutions refused to make such loans to the non-creditworthy Soviet Union in the absence of 100 percent government guarantees to cover the transactions, the German government and taxpayers now find themselves the nation holding the bulk of non-performing credit exposure with the former Soviet Union.
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