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Alesha Harrison
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Former 2 1/2 Years as a Part Time Model in CollegeMar 20
Who paid for East Germany to be rebuilt after World War II?
The Soviet Union spent very little rebuilding Eastern Europe in general. That’s why between 1954 and 1961 2.7 million East Germans walked into
West Berlin and never went back. Ultimately after 1990 what was West
Germany ended up rebuilding what was East Germany, to the tune of 2.3
trillion Euros or roughly $2.8 trillion.

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James Kiffin
· Mar 22
no wonder south korea does not want union with the north

Alesha Harrison
· May 7
It’s the sad truth the south knows they would easily go broke rebuilding
the north, feeding the people alone, considering most them have been malnourished for years, would take billions.

Gord Merrick
· Apr 24
A lot of Eastern Europe post WW11 was in ruins and Stalin wanted it left
that way. He had a lot of vengeance and revenge in his heart and his
mindset of building the Berlin Wall was his simple minded way of
punishing East Berliners and stopping the flow of East Berliners into
the more prosperous west that was being transformed. The American
Marshall Plan of providing unsecured funds towards rebuilding Europe
caused a transformation and prosperity. It was revolutionary. In the
past victors in armed conflict never paid the vanquished to rebuild.

Richard Munro
· Tue
Stalin died in 1953. The Wall went up in 1961. Stalin had not a lot to
do with its construction. That was more an SED or East German decision
ok‘d by the Soviets.

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