In 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

In 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.