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The GDR also had to pay war reparations to Poland and the Soviet Union. It bore the full brunt of reparations that the West Germans would not pay. . ..…
The GDR also had to pay war reparations to Poland and the Soviet Union. It bore the full brunt of reparations that the West Germans would not pay. . ..…
Economically, the East also recovered and rebuilt, but much more slowly and much less completely than the West. Poland and Spain had roughly the same GDP per capita in 1950. By 1989, Poland’s GDP per capita had doubled—but Spain’s had gone up by a factor of five. . ..…