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Slavic and Scandinavian countries are very rich in resources, and Russia wanted to control most trade in Europe until the collapse of the Soviet Union. More trade = More power and they were still recovering after the HARD losses when the Germans' invaded Leningrad and the war.
The answer is the National Debt, when he started the national debt was 22.5 billion, when he left it was 258.5 billion .