Original sentence: The official statistics pointed out that in 1988:
Edited sentence: Despite damage listed above, occupying powers made repeated attempts to display extensive, damaging explotation of local natural resources as a good thing.For example, it was common to point towards constructing large power plants on Estonian soil, including two world's largest oil shale-fired Narva Power Plants built in the 1960s and the 1970s.Great Soviet Encyclopedia compared Estonia's annual industrial power output in 1940, the first year of occupation-caused destruction, 190 GWh, against that of 1975, 16712 GWh.Similarly, the official statistics pointed out that in 1988: