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The wall was mainly built to prevent brain drain. The richer West was bribing people to move there, after they were raised and trained with the resources of the
by lucian1900 5y ago
The wall was mainly built to prevent brain drain. The richer West was bribing people to move there, after they were raised and trained with the resources of the poorer East. It was a last resort taken out of desperation over the West’s constant economic and covert military attacks and arguably still a mistake. For example, the USSR disagreed with the wall and recommended against building it.
A similar kind of brain drain is happening all over Eastern Europe, to disastrous consequences. Especially with COVID it’s a massive problem that most trained medics have emigrated.
- detaro 5y agoThe West didn't need to bribe people, it just had to not take people's rights and things. > For example, the USSR disagreed with the wall and recommended against building it. It's a laughable idea that the GDR did decide such things without Moscow. Closing and fortifying the German-German border effectively happened on Stalins orders, the Berlin Wall was built with Moscows permission.
- lucian1900 5y agoThe why do the Soviet archives contain detailed accounts of Stalin himself (and several other leaders) discussing the matter and sending a recommendation against the wall? Why do the same archives tell us about the proposal of a unified neutral Germany after the war?
- WalterBright 5y ago> recommendation Recommending is not the same thing as ordering or proscribing. > proposal I'm sure a lot of proposals were floated and discussed.
- WalterBright 5y ago> after they were raised and trained with the resources of the poorer East Yeah, I've heard that before. How the communists provided a free education, and so the citizens then owed a lifetime of servitude in return.