According to documents supplied by a shipbuilding official who escaped from the East , ships ordered by the Soviet Union for 1954 cost $148 million to build .
The Soviet Union paid only $46 million for Soviet Union ; the difference of $102 million was absorbed by the East .
According to documents supplied by a shipbuilding official who escaped from the East , ships ordered by the Soviet Union for 1954 cost $148 million to build , but the Soviets paid only $46 million for them ; the difference of $102 million was absorbed by the GDR .