What is your view on Expulsion of Germans from european countries in 1945? What was it? Was it crime ? Or just revenge?
Expulsion of Germans 1945
Samuel Gray
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Mason Gonzalez
This basically saves Germany from extinction and reboots its genetic stock.
D-danke.
Tyler Morgan
It damaged the DDR's prospects. A DDR with Silesia and Pomerania would have done a lot better economically.
Daniel Williams
Poland without Silesia and Pomerania would have done worse economically.
Isaiah Cox
Poland was less important to the Eastern Bloc. The DDR was on the frontline of the Cold War and it consequently suffered from braindrain to the BRD, which was held up as superior to it and therefore evidence of the superiority of capitalism. Also the DDR was the most successful of the Eastern Bloc states and it would have made better use of that territory.
David Evans
This especially with the Polish Peoples Republics absolutely trash tier history of economic Management
Luis Perez
Doubtful, Warsaw and Krakow were already major industrial centres, and its economy was mostly agrarian regardless. Also Poland was so fucked from the war that the economy could be completely restructured anyways, whereas the regions that existed in the RL DDR were effectively geared for the Nazi War economy.
On the expulsions in general, I think the expulsion of Germans from Germany proper was an immense mistake: one agreed to by all the allies btw so don't let no wank tell you it was the ebul soviets Churchill pushed for it also. On example is Konigsburg, the effective depopulation of the city was caused as a result of the conflict in it yes, but it should have either enetered the USSR as a OstPrussen German Soviet Republic or as a part of the DDR. As for the German minorities in eastern Europe on the other hand, that is a different question. By the end of the war the nature of the German occupation in many of these areas and the fascist regimes that had supported by Germany that ensured the Germans were protected (like Iron Guard Romania) were gone. Long term would the Germans have been better off in Transylvania under Casueascseauaseaucuasucaseau? I doubt it. As such, creating a proper DDR with Pommern and Deutsch Silesian that had a policy of accepting all the Sudeternlander, Danube Saxons et al would have been a better decision for all of the eastern bloc. However it happened, and we must live with what we have.
Zachary Campbell
The DDR while strong in the early cold-war had much like Poland / Rest of the WP / USSR its economy had continued to stagnate
The only Socialist Republic showing any Economic Promise at the time was Kadar's Hungary and that was only because of him following the Cuban / Mao's China Model
Which is why Andropov attempted to Re-Orient the System towards Hungary's Model during his Tenure
Carson Nelson
DDR had the potential for Cybersyn, it was just never realised.
I agree with Kadarism to an extent, Hungary's self management worked better than Yugoslavia's (and I am a Tito fan).
ALso there were plans for botha Cybersyn AND Kadarist reforms in the late 60s initiated by Cornholio, but Eyebrow ditched them both.
Josiah Nguyen
Andropov Proposed a Plan whih would have essentially made the USSR Kadar Model but he died before it could be implemented on any real scale
And BirthMark then promptly used Andropovs ideas as a Launchpad for his Dismantling of socialism