From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message news:41cc2b65{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > I thought there were oilfields there?
>>
>> Yes. Fat lot of good it does the locals. The money flows steadily out of
>> there. Maybe some corporate managers visiting the oil fields have
>> laptops,
>> but I don't think the actual workers get much more than a sack of
>> (frozen)
>> potatoes.
>
> Really? When the oil companies were hiring help to work in Alaska,
> they were paying big bucks to draw people there.

Well, it was Soviet Union, so paying people wasn't all that popular idea.
Except with Vodka, there was always plenty of that.


Antti Kurenniemi

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