>>2282688Here's even the study on Russian empire economy. GDP-wise Baltics were alright, but not the most advanced...
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~egcenter/Markevich_Yale_conference.pdf And there were photocameras in USSR during interwar period, too. So you are giving your country too much credit.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0