Pay the fine!

Imagine the situation, if your country, your national enterprises, were to lease licenses for producing most of the technologically advanced devices and the countries to get it from were the stunt to hand it out only for large sums and they even said "first, before all, get a valuable currency - yours is less worth the number that it says on the bill than the material it's made of", think about how much of your daily gadgets you use and your prestige wares that you own to impress someone wouldn't be there because your state and your enterprises couldn't afford it or the prices to sell the wares in your nation were so high that no regular resident could pay so much.
If you can imagine the extent, then you know why the states of the Warsaw Pact and their associates didn't have so many things.