• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    In the case of Germany, Eastern Germany was made to pay war reparations for the incredible damages dealt to the soviet peoples, and the 27 million people they murdered. Western Germany slapped the Nazis on their wrists, and was flooded with western cash. The social safety nets in Eastern Germany were more developed and robust, while the west had more money. West Germany was indeed a dictatorship, and certainly not free and prosperous, though it had money. Eastern Germany was poor, but had much better social care, social progressivism, and more.

    Go ahead, block easily verifiable facts and statistics, I’m sure that will end up helping you.

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        3 days ago

        All states are dictatorships by a given class. West Germany was capitalist, and staffed by many remnants of the Nazi party. It was a dictatorship of capital, just as modern Germany is.