Götterdämmerung;2774747 said:
LOL an ignorant Korean-American teaching me German history.
Aren't you a false-flag Chinese?
How was Germany a developed democracy in 1932?
Germany was a developed, not developing, country and a democracy, how chaotic it may be, until 1932.
You can see the effect of totalitarianism on German people through the history of East Germany. East Germany was never an innovator even though it comprised of Berlin and Nazi Germany's heartland. Totalitarianism kills Innovation and Creativity, period.
So, in the Soviet case it was not freedom and democracy that enabled them to innovation and creativity but lack of corruption.
Soviet Union wasn't very innovative; they were followers, not leaders. The Soviet Science and Engineering never quite matched the US ones, and the Soviets were always trying to catch up to the US innovations, which is easier.
Anyhow, China is already on the diverging path of development from Japan and Korea before them, ensuring that China will not reach the Japanese/Korean level of development in the years to come.
Japan 1972 : A budding democracy
Korea 1992 : A budding democracy
Taiwan 2002 : A budding democracy
China 2012 : A totalitarian country with no possibility of democracy and freedom in the near future.