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il Bernd 2025-11-03 17:31:03 No. 19917
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What would have had happened, if the GDR, instead of rolling back on the NES, doubled it down, allowing sectored open market policies, private enterprise and even creating special economic zones with less tariffs and taxes? If unemployment and disparity cause popular discontent, the population was already locked it inside with the wall anyway, and the USSR could always interve with tanks. If party hardliners oppose, you just substitute them with a new class of non ideological technocrats. Instead the GDR doubled down on debt to keep a zombie economy. Am I wrong?
by Bernd 2025-11-03 17:38:14 No. 19918
>let's transform our beautiful DDR into the evil capitalist soulless paradise sure, comrade
no Bernd 2025-11-03 18:25:02 No. 19923
I only know NES as the gaming console so this does not make sense to me.
de Bernd 2025-11-03 18:30:15 No. 19924
>>19923 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_System >>19918 That's what happened anyway after Gorbachov betrayed the GDR.
il Bernd 2025-11-03 19:35:01 No. 19932
>>19918 Didn't they stagnate and got left behind by the rest of the world once USSR started to overcharge them for oil, minerals, and similar? It seems that their only way out was to become a net exporter, with capitalism.
de Bernd 2025-11-03 19:39:22 No. 19937
>>19932 What's a good book on this?
by Bernd 2025-11-03 19:42:44 No. 19940
>>19924 basically what I meant: what's the point of becoming West Germany under the label of communism? >>19932 >left behind by the rest of the world I believe they still were the most advanced economy in the Soviet bloc
il Bernd 2025-11-03 19:53:59 No. 19947
>>19937 I don't know any, I wish I knew. >>19940 But Bernd, all ideologies are lies. So why not become an export oriented command economy while paying lip service to the ideology of your imperial overlord, that extracts your uranium to then sells it back to you?
de Bernd 2025-11-03 20:10:10 No. 19951
>>19947 Where do you get your info about GDR then?
us Bernd 2025-11-03 20:50:15 No. 19964
there be an economic crash like 99% of the time when war economies and command economies try to scale down the state, then some retarded commies say this is proof they actually need more communism and seize power this is pretty much how latino economies work with circular failed liberalism and stagnant command economies
il Bernd 2025-11-04 06:01:55 No. 20000
>>19964 I think Latino economies are more centered around commodities booms and busts. Like how Argentina is basically only a meats exporter, or Brazil exports only soy, coffee and minerals, and the Chinese construction industry demand for iron and steel or the American consumer demand for coffee grains deeply affect the Brazilian GDP. I might be wrong though.>>19964
de Bernd 2025-11-04 08:17:28 No. 20007 SÄGE!
>>20000 boring get
de Bernd 2025-11-04 08:56:15 No. 20010
>>20007 20000 posts in nine full months hmm
ch Bernd 2025-11-04 09:19:19 No. 20013
>>20010 20000 posts in the time it takes to make a baby.
de Bernd 2025-11-04 09:44:53 No. 20018
>>19917 >What would have had happened, if the GDR, instead of rolling back on the NES, doubled it down, allowing sectored open market policies, private enterprise and even creating special economic zones with less tariffs and taxes? The GDR was so fucking broke and in debt at this point, pretty much everything would have been impossible. They realized that they could only avoid becoming bankrupt if they lowered the standard of living immensely, and that would have cost them their heads. They played the smart game and just let the west pay for everything they fucked up over the last 40 years.
il Bernd 2025-11-04 20:44:09 No. 20119
>>20018 The way that they collapsed and were absorbed overnight it's very strange in my opinion. I imagine that a lot of old people got their pensions destroyed with the currency exchange of the unification. So you don't think that by early 60s they still could reform? If it worked for china, why not the GDR? The population being exposed to the standard of living of west Germany and the soviets breathing down their neck wouldn't allow a thourgh reform?