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Eric Schiller's explanation of what the initial question was only confused me.

If both nominals should be in dative, then the example I remember seeing in
this thread (sorry if my Russian is inaccurate) "V Kievu ix bylo polno" is
not a candidate at all, as "v Kievu" is locative rather than dative (I assume
that Russian, like other Slavic languages, has the locative case).

As of "Mnye bylo pomoch nyemu", the Croatian equivalent would be "Valja meni
pomoc'i mu" where "meni"= "to me" is accented and "mu"="to him" not, or
"Valja mi njemu pomoc'i", where "njemu"="to him" is accented and "mi"="to me"
not. As I remember there was some discussion of ambiguity in the Russian
sentence, I'd like to add that in the Croatian sentence there is no ambiguity,
i.e. in both examples it is clearly "I" who is supposed to help "him", not
vice versa.

	Sven