I think the GDR was just a more effective country, just like Czechoslovakia and Hungary were. In the case of the GDR, despite being led by a very small-minded c

I think the GDR was just a more effective country, just like Czechoslovakia and Hungary were. In the case of the GDR, despite being led by a very small-minded clown basically sanctioned by the USSR. Russia has never had it good in hundreds of years and it kept the tradition under communism.