Thanks, Soviets. No wonder everyone tried to move west even facing death. No wonder East Germany ended not by invasion but by its own people.
Rip
Austin Adams
Charles Ortiz
Jeremiah Morris
even thou the collapse happened post unifaction, where the government tore ostie industry
Owen Davis
I personally find Germany to be a fascinating example of the divide between those who lived under a nominally socialist state and those who did not.
Those in western Germany (whose exposure to socialism was mostly via western propaganda rather then lived experience) can be broadly described, based upon voting habits as either neo-liberals or neo-conservatives.
While both neo-liberals and neo-conservatives are of-course represented in eastern Germany, voting data routinely shows that the modern successor party (more or less) to the SED is supported by well over a quarter of the population.
Had eastern bloc nations been as bad as capitalist media suggests, one would expect the voting data to show the opposite to be true.
With areas that have directly experienced the 'horrors' of socialism (eastern Germany in this instance) to be the most anti-socialist and those areas that have not experienced socialism to be the most supportive of socialism due to simple naivety.
Ostalgie, nostalgia for socialism and eastern Germany remains strong in the minds of many.
Bentley Wood
Western Germany only became good because they used East Germans as slave labor, then when the Berlin wall was built they imported millions of Turks to do slave labor.
This is why calling Erdogan a dictator is illegal there.
Cameron Campbell
This. Also fuck erdogan
Xavier Powell
Have you perhaps heard of the
GERMAN MIRACLE???
Xavier Jackson
For some reason Slave Labor always creates Miracles.
Henry Phillips
The miracle happened while East Germany was in existence. "Slavery" is making a higher wage than the east?
Luke Wright
West Europeans are literally retarded. Soviets should have genocided the h*ns and used their industry to rally the third world, without which the west is nothign.
Now to answer the op, who is like always a faggot. GPD is useless. The Socialist block had better education, better healthcare and happier people. People in the west are still depressed, and can't even afford to have kids.
Now the reasons why the west had bigger gdp