• galanthus@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Why would you not compare european communist countries woth european capitalist countries? Sure, africans and asians were poorer, but that goes without saying, honestly, what does that even have to do with this matter?

    East Germany was poorer than west Germany. That tells us something. The fact that Ethiopia or whatever was poorer does not really tell us much about ehich economic system is better.

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      19 hours ago

      Loool it’s easy to say East Germany was poorer when they had to deal with all the sanctions. But be my guest, how many homeless people in USA and how many in Cuba?

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        18 hours ago

        If only there was a superpower leading a blok of nations rivaling the west that could have supported east Germany…