Quote (massmarines @ Mar 1 2022 01:44am)
And yet it is a better place to live in than the southern hemisphere.
are you in special ed?
it's because germany as we knew it was disintegrated post ww2. cue the US funneling billions into the capitalist west germany in order to prop it up as an example of capitalist supremacy in the face of the struggling communist, soviet backed ddr.
cue decades of west germany transitioning into a social democracy funded partially on global aid, partially on natural resources and an invigorated industrial sector. abra kadabra, germany is back up on its feet again. guess what countries aren't back up on their feet? most of what fell under the soviet iron curtain and by extension most of what fell outside of the marshall plan's reach
read a fucking book, will you?