SOVIET - WESTERN ECONOMIC TIES

Approved for Release: 2021/11/22 C06902819 Soviet-Western Economic Ties 1. Soviet Stake in Economic Ties with West During the 1970s the USSR looked increasingly to the West to help bolster a faltering economy. Share of trade with non-Communist countries climbed from less than 35 percent of total soviet trade in 1970 to almost 45 percent of trade turnover last year...