>EE never had its technocrats like Taiwan or South Korea Because also the political and education system in communism couldn't create any visionary technocrats

>EE never had its technocrats like Taiwan or South Korea Because also the political and education system in communism couldn't create any visionary technocrats focused on innovation and exports. It simply encouraged cronyism, lying, backstabbing, empire building, fiefdoms and thievery from the same zero-sum pie aka the local national economy. Well educated and innovative workers from Taiwan or South Korea weren't sent to the gulags or political prisons for "free thinking" or for coming from the wrong family backgrounds.