Which time?
Hint: the loss didn’t happen in 1990.
Capitalist countries build walls to keep people out. Commie/socialist hellholes build walls to stop people from escaping.
What B.S. The NAZIs brought socialism to Germany.
WWII was National Socialism against International Socialism.
American Capitalism and the British Empire were strong aids in the defeat of National Socialism.
Large numbers of the 20 million Soviets killed in the Great Patriotic War were killed by Stalin.
And who did the Germans pick to lead their country to ruin? An east German named Angela Merkel.
There’s an awful lot of nonsense about living conditions in East Germany. For example, the author talks about giving land to the farmers, but this is nonsense. The state expropriated all privately owned land and created collective farming, even going so far as to remove all the boulders and tree lines that marked the boundaries of the land, making it impossible to restore ownership. The farmers certainly were not happy about this. The claim that living standards were comparable may have been true in the 50s and early 60s, but afterwards West Germany’s standard of living quickly exceeded that of the East. Above all. the author ignores the demoralizing effects of the constant fear and the degradation of human life through the constant repetition of lies and presence of informants. Poverty and gross inequality are only one type of indignity, and as long as one can get by, considerably less than being treated as one equal slave among others.
The vast natural resources of Russia, that wealth and head start, that energy and food growing capacity, the ingenuity and creativity of the Russia people and culture, was not enough to make Communism work.
Soviet strongman and corrupt gubmint staffers tried their best over decades, and they ended by breaking the Soviet economy
Right after re-unification some colleagues of mine visited EGermany to assess the status of their nuclear industry. It was in shambles, literally. We were surprised that there wasn’t a Chernoble (sp?) type event at every facility. Regular workers could not afford a full set of pipe wrenches to do maintenance on steam pipes — they had one over-sized wrench and various wood blocks to fit in for smaller pipes. Their entire tech was like visiting a pre-1900 plant, and not steam-punk, either. It was ugly.
Communism of any sort (DemoSociailism, progressive, etc) are all failures. Rotten to the core. Anyone claiming to be part of that party has never been to a commie country, or listened to anyone who fled.
My father was a manual laborer, basically sympathetic towards communism, but he said with skepticism: “In communism, whether you work or don’t work, it doesn’t make a difference!”
And that is basically the problem.