Life was good there because ignorance is bliss. East Germans didn't know what a BMW or Munich shopping street looked like. There's one secret ingredient to soc

Life was good there because ignorance is bliss. East Germans didn't know what a BMW or Munich shopping street looked like. There's one secret ingredient to socialism: it requires a well run capitalist economy to afford it long term. Something the DDR never cracked. By the 1970s every BRD worker owned a car and television. And the rest is history.