More leftovers, as this wealthy housewife illustrates with her beloved Deutsche marks, could be used to keep the family warm in wintertime.

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This was primarily accomplished by Germany's undisciplined, non-transparent and largely unmonitored lending of tens of billions of deutsche marks to the Gorbachev regime.

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In fact, under present circumstances, this amounts to little more than alchemy, transforming worthless Soviet paper into deutsche marks, lire, francs, pounds sterling, yen and dollars all by executive fiat.

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