首先，即使是一个人口基数小（人口处于下降趋势），经济实力薄弱的后苏维埃国家，它不仅生存下来，更是繁荣昌盛。 它的货币实际上同强大的德国马克相挂钩。

First, even a small, poor, post-Soviet state in demographic decline can survive, indeed thrive, in a de-facto currency union with mighty Germany.

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位于德国斯图加特的保时捷在今年四月曾表示，在获得国家必要的批准之前，它不会对大众有大的举动。

Porsche, based in Stuttgart, Germany, said in April that it won't make any major moves at Volkswagen before receiving the necessary approvals from national regulators.

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它的德国主人称，它请求参军，因为它不喜欢法国人，这可能算是最稀奇古怪的事了。

Perhaps most outlandish is the claim by his German masters that he asked to serve in the German army because he disliked the French.

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