He said the set lasted for about 800 turns until now. As in, a single country got around 800 turns to play. Since the start of the set. Until now.

He was telling you that at the time of the FS iMag countries played 240 (less than 240) turns less than NA countries. Because iMag countries played about 560 and then stored while NA countries played full 800 turns (or about).

Nice to see that respect you talked about come out of you misreading what Soviet said.