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> However, the Soviets were still angry with the Germans for having done so much damage to their homeland in the Second World War three decades earlier, so they
by stefantalpalaru 11y ago
> However, the Soviets were still angry with the Germans for having done so much damage to their homeland in the Second World War three decades earlier, so they did not care about East Germany’s bleak economic prospects.
Not true. East Germany was socialism's window to the west so they were supposed to look their best all the time. As a result, they had the best lives in the Soviet Bloc. The rest of us had it much worse.
- allendoerfer 11y agoIn fact in the very early days young people fed up with their nazi parents actually moved to the East to start something new. While the Soviets let East Germans build a pipeline for free once in a while, it was not generally their intention to let them suffer economically. Communism managed to do this on its own.