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Originally Posted by Freiwillige
I fail to understand this East\West German situation. I mean Germany united is the size of Texas so you would think that the prosperous west would simply expand production into the east and vice verse. Is there some sort of economic blockade of east German industry by the west?
I just cannot understand how Germany has failed unify its two parts.
Its not as if Germany was split for centuries, People on both sides of the wall remember when there was no wall.
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Both states developed very differently after WWII. I don't think you have two states in the Union that are as different as West and East Germany has been. Also, the US have been a very different state, migration-wise, than European states, european national self-understanding and defining of "identity" is very different than inamerican history. That is a difference you must take into account, although America is extremely vulnerable to constantly missing it - and then wondering why it's recipes that work in America do not work in other parts of the world as well.
Or in short: Germany or Europe are not Texas.
