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		pif on Sept 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In This Beautiful Library, Bats Guard the Books Why did they have to buy the sheets from Russia? I'd naively expect they could source it locally. What am I missing?

kwhitefoot on Sept 2, 2024 [–]

Perhaps the Russian supplier was more competitive or the product of better quality or just more precisely what was needed. Just the same as plenty of people in Europe now buy Japanese cars despite there being a huge car industry in Europe.

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