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Western Germany got a lot of money from the US to rebuild. I guess you could give capitalism credit for that, but it certainly helped that the US didn't have mo
by jacobush 9y ago
Western Germany got a lot of money from the US to rebuild. I guess you could give capitalism credit for that, but it certainly helped that the US didn't have more than 1000 cities destroyed like the Soviet Union had.
- adventured 9y agoWhat's the difference? US capitalists built the Soviet industrial base to begin with. There were few things the Soviets could do industrially for themselves, they were extraordinarily incompetent. http://www.americanheritage.com/content/how-america-helped-build-soviet-machine http://www.americanheritage.com/content/how-america-helped-b...