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Where are you getting your data. CIA worldbook shows East Germany had 2/3rds GDP per capita. Living standards for overall population must be close as in a socialist country poor would be better taken care off. And guess what - even 30 years after unification per capita GDP of east continues to...

It is well known that soviet bloc countries were bad in market economy at low level - like cola/cornflakes etc. But they were excellent and matching step to step with anyone at high tech level - rocket science, medicine etc. But that was easy to correct as china demonstrated with its reforms...

As far as i know there was never any shortage of food in germany. Yes they did not have 2 dozen varieties of cornflakes or fruits - but bread, meat, housing, public transport was cheap and plenty.

East germany had almost 70% of gdp per capita as west germany. Anyone can put a spin on anything, whatever it may be its completely different from your claims that if russia rules germany it will be hellscape.

well your father is not here in this forum. maybe there is a possibility of better discussions then.

You can say what you want. The world recognizes east germany as a sporting and science powerhouse. liberal west has a megaphone on propaganda and counter narratives get drowned. Under no circumstances can east germany be considered dirt poor in anyway and neither is west that rich. At one point...

Not unusual. Driver probably assumed the guys are already in truck and moved on.

Dude they did beat the soviets. Maybe you werent born then.

The wall was within berlin and entire surronding country was east germany. Stories on that are vastly exaggerated. Ofcourse it was poorer than west germany at starting point. And people from poorer countries migrate - like you moved to germany from greece. But being part of soviet bloc did not...

Actually it sort off was. GDR was part of soviet bloc for 40 years. And was quiet wealthy by 80s. And many still fondly recollect it. There is even a german word for it - Ostalgie.

You will be imprisoned for trying to get rubles and buy some gas to keep your house warm in winter ? sound like the freedom @Apollon craves hahaha ..the price for his freedom. Freedom is ok if the damage is within 3%.

but you seem fixated on ruble value.

Unlike what they like to believe, NATO wont be paying for security for every diddle little country and waging wars on their behalf against russia and their neighbors . NATO will do things at their calculations. These silly people will get burned playing giants for games.

Alright - take your revenge for czar against putin after 5 centuries. Any plans to revenge against spain for moor empire too ? Playing nato against russia is playing with fire. You are likely to get burnt like Ukraine right now. A small country shouldnt play such stupid politics instead of...

Again you keep mixing up Russian empire with soviet republics and modern russia. Essentially you are not holding anyone accountable but raging against history. i dont know about crimea but i know the entire central asian republics which were occupied by Russian empire have preserved their...

well put. And i may have mixed up parts of @thetutle with another user who was obsessing about old russian empire's quarrel with some khanates here and there almost 5 to 6 centuries ago. But still my points stand as they are.

what misrepresentation? lol. You doubled down on what you said before. There is nothing for west or anyone to "give" anything to muslims in terms of who should be ruling what. Freedom means muslims choose what they want in terms of who should rule them. Telling people what their borders should...

Very interesting - muslims must be grateful because they were not wiped out like American Indians? that is your standard for gratitude ? I suppose thats why you are so sympathtic to nazis because they directly did not kill your ancestors when they could have done so. what logic really. Soviets...

With exactly similar arguments the nazi went conquering the russians and had their asses handed over. "genetically inferior" - really?

what economy impact? once you can make your own weapons you can make millions of them with barely any economic impact. what are guns, missiles when the basic engineering and tooling is already done ? just metal tubes with some electronic components.