Why is Europe still so divided when it comes to earnings?

The cold war has been over for 30 years.

In 1945, Germany was destroyed, in 1975, it was a world leading country with lots of money.

In 1990, the Iron Curtain fell and Eastern Europe adopted capitalism, in 2017, Eastern Europe is still dirt poor.

Notice the difference between east and west Germany.
Consider for a minute where that came from, and then think what happened to countries who only got to suckle on the big money boobie ~12 years ago.
We are literally still 10 years behind DDR and over 30 years behind the rest of Europe.
You should rather ask what the fuck is Spain doing, really.

Because babyboomers here lived most their lives under soviet union and still practice old habits that are hard to break.

>the fuck is Spain doing, really.
Socialism, as always. These countries that like mine had socialist revolutions got permanently stagnant and stupid. The EU is actually saving our asses.

Maybe if you properly collapsed like you (or Poland for that matter) should have, maybe it'd be different?
Hard to tell really, and I for sure wouldn't want to risk it.

Reasons:
1. Better infrastructure from starting the industrial age first.
2. Capitalism and better administrations and government.
3. U.S. aid
4. Cultural factors (harder working people)
5. Racial reasons maybe, who knows.

Saxony was the heart of German light industry before the cold war. We pour billions of euro into that land and they still can't get en par. But at least there is growth in Saxony. Other regions like Saxony-Anhalt and Northrhine-Westphalia are stagnant

Franco died

Eastern Europe has, by and large, yet to fully liberalize. There is some correlation between the level of economic freedom and PPI but other factors such as geography, war and culture are necessary to fully explain the disparity.

> Maybe if you properly collapsed like you (or Poland for that matter) should have, maybe it'd be different?
It would probably be worse, too many people live off gibs, they are not very free-market oriented.

Huh well from personall experience with my country here it goes.
>89 revolution "The security"(our commie police)ousted and killed oof most of the important mebers of the party.
>The next 3 years all of our industry gets sold for bits to western countries and gets shut down for (((no reason)))
>our army goes from 500k to 100k you dont need and army western europe has your back goyim
>in 1992-1993 our private sector is booming with little local companies hey things may not be so bad.jpg.
>then free market hits
>1994-1997 our market gets monopolized by western corporations and people are literally starving,no jobs,no idnustry no private sector...
>today more than 50% of the country is iliterate peasents and gypsys why?Because you cant have free education thats socialist...kek

I dont know it seems like the west fucked us but you tell me....

War isn't a major factor, Germany was destroyed and yet they're the major economic force in Europe.

The reason is communism. It caused EE to be stagnate. Things like washing machines and care were luxurious equipment which you had to sign up for to get.They killed the prosperous people, the drivers of progress and economic growth. Now we're slowly recovering.

> U.S. aid
That one didn't help much actually. GB received much more and didn't even come close to the german recovery. I would say that a strong mark was much more important.

*cars

50 years of communism do that to you user.

It is a major factor in command economies because real-time calculation of prices, and thus the ability for the market to adapt to changes in population and demographics, is impossible. Compare the relative rates of recovery in East and West Germany after the Second World war.

The are a few reasons for a strong Germany rebuilt after the war.

>The local community staying the same in size(Eastern terretories were given to Poland which ment that the people who were moved to Western Germany moved into the gaps).
>Germany was a wall against communism and help other than the Marshal plan was given ie technology, same as Japan
>A strong industrial background which wasn't fully destroyed, was rebuilt and let to use

Communism is worse than bombs. When your city is rubble you're just at zero and have to build, which is quite straightforward. When your country has been Communist for decades you have to teach everyone who has forgotten how to do business, and that's a hell of a lot more difficult than rebuilding Dresden.
>which is obvious, you fucking idiot.

As for former ostbloc - after the fall of communist regimes pro western governments got in power, privatized everything to foreign investors and since then people here are just slaves of foreign companies who work hard to keep their wages as low as possible, even by importing additional people. And governments (from right to left) are collaborating with them.

In short - central europe is nothing but a supply of cheap workforce and market for trash western goods. It was planned exactly like that and I cant see it changing in foreseeable future, because majority of people is stupid and is even actively getting brainwashed.

...

The main factor which makes a country rich or poor is its population's iq, anything else are excuses.

Mainly culture is my guess and culture and genetics are (of couse) connected.

Look at the infrastructure. Germany was destroyed (probably in worse shape than Eastern Europe ever was), but they still managed to work it out.

For example.

The Nordic countries have a culture where you work hard and don't try to cheat the system too much. Unlike many other cultures where they take pride in cheating.

IQ and personality traits (to a lesser degree). "Average" personality traits in a population leads to a certain culture, which has a very large impact on the economic success...

Feels good being rich

Hopefully, you can all comprehend now what happened with Greece. Look at our neighbors.

Wallonian niggers dragging us down again

yeah but the soviet born and raised shitheads r still in the government and any other higher ups, they must die first

All those people in the ex-communist countries have no concept of creating wealth. You gotta wait until they die, and slowly the following generations will catch up. Eventually.

>Poland
>communism ends
>every new store is owned by the French, German, British or even Portuguese
>buying groceries just sends your money to these countries
>EU gibs just go to German companies
>the majority of the media is owned by Germans
>why isn't our GDP rising
really compels your cerebrum to activate its synapses

>You should rather ask what the fuck is Spain doing, really.
Spain is growing 3% per year,senpai

man our system is going burn hard with a lot of foreigners, I used to think that rise of 5% would be really bad, but now it's natives with 5-10% unemployment in workforce vs 40-95% unemployment in workforce with MENA migrants

>Mainly culture is my guess and culture and genetics are (of couse) connected.
HAHAHAHA and marshall plan? Spain did not receive it. keep lying yourself

>1989
>we're totally capitalism now
>ummm no man just because I was a fucking commie in the past doesn't mean I don't stay in the government now
>and that includes all of the fucking communist secret service someone has to run this shit m8
>yeah we're keeping pretty much all the elites from before intact
>actually let THEM write our 'free' constitution
>oh shit brah nah we're totally going to keep all the nationalized and socialist institutions intact no worries all your commie jerbs and benefits are safe with us you're welcome
>ohhh no we can't have complete economic freedom that would be a fucking disaster, dude... we did it for a couple of days in the short transformation period and PEOPLE WERE ALLOWED TO ACTUALLY SELL AND BUY THINGS FREELY WHAT A NIGHTMARE
>uuhhh yeah, the west is increasing taxes and regulations we should totally follow them, what are you, not fucking progressive???
>actually fuck it just join the socialist west altogether, we are TOTALLY fucking ready for this

at least you escaped the nigs, i know western people with skills who have moved there recently, poland has a good future

But the technology we gave them was actually stolen by us from them. (See the industrial looting of Germany).

Britain by far got the most aid from us and was stagnant until the 80s.

Germany still had to pay back massive reparations.

sadly most of the foreign workers here are topcucks. I can get any Britcuck I want to stop talking to me by telling them that I quite like Nigel Farage. They react with a look of despair on their face, as if you just told them you're a furfag.

I'm assuming investing in eastern euro is a no go?

Much safer than investing in Sweden.

Lel what? We're getting massive foreign investments. Our GDP is rising by 3.6% this year. Everything is going well in Poland, at least.

Basically, the west sucked America's cock to recieve the Marshall Plan while the East had gommunism.

>not investing in Eastern Poland
what will you tell your wife's son?