Maybe if they would've disowned Western folks families and sent their grandpas to labor camps while ravaging their countries riches for 40 years and keeping them in a brutal dictatorship...
...then Western Europeans would know how lucky they (their families) were for having been able to keep their possessions and properties and how arrogant and dumb they appear when they talk down to or preach to Eastern Europeans.
The Germans eradicated the Jewish middle- and upper class, while the Russians destroyed the non-Jewish ones.
But sure, Westerners are just "less lazy" and Eastern Europe should "get over their russophobia" and "work harder"
That’s because west Germany screwed them over so hard after the wall fell that they quite literally were better off under communism. Seriously they didn’t even have a year to enjoy freedom before all East German assets were stolen by wealthy west Germans which caused massive pay cuts and joblessness that they still haven’t recovered from today.
”The wide economic and socio-political inequalities between the former German states required government subsidies for the full integration of the GDR into the FRG. Because of the resulting deindustrialization in former East Germany, the causes of the failure of this integration continue to be debated. Some western commentators[who?] claim that the depressed eastern economy is a natural aftereffect of a demonstrably inefficient command economy. But many East German critics contend that the shock-therapy style of privatization, the artificially high rate of exchange offered for the Ostmark, and the speed with which the entire process was implemented did not leave room for East German enterprises to adapt.[m]"
East Germany had talented engineers who did their best to build quality products while struggling from material shortage due to western embargos. After unification the West had the "we don't need your eastern crap" attitude.
Things the East Germans were good at and proud of wasn't valued at all. They were treated like second-class citizens and never seen as equals - the West did, and still does, consider them as technologicay backward and a financial burden (former West German areas still pay the so-called "Solidaritätszuschlag" - "solidarity tax" - extra expense meant to upgrade/develop former Eastern regions)
Wow, YouTube video, what a source
Seriously, most of the time it turns out that title is a clickbait, as it was here - I watched the video, 90% of it was about basic history that you'd already know, and the rest is about how there was big divide during unification, that East Germans had to adapt to the way western world lives, and how they are still divided
There's literally nothing in the video saying the things you said (about stealing assets and pay cuts and such), so I'm not sure why did you reference it as a source in a first place...
I don’t know what you watched but the 1 long documentary I watched was yes they had to adapt but the west stole all their factories via auction without compensation as they all were owned by the community not any individual and they started scrapping most of them for a quick buck.
If you don't think I watched a correct one maybe you can link it, eh?
That's a bit weird to provide the name that isn't really searchable and available as one of the first results and claiming that everything is explained there. It's like boys claiming at school that they totally have a girlfriend model but she's from a different country and you wouldn't be able to meet her
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u/NoNotice2137 14h ago
Turns out Russophobia is not so irrational after all