The West didn't need to bribe people, it just had to not take people's rights and things.
> For example, the USSR disagreed with the wall and recommended against building it.
It's a laughable idea that the GDR did decide such things without Moscow. Closing and fortifying the German-German border effectively happened on Stalins orders, the Berlin Wall was built with Moscows permission.
Re:How to get rich without being lucky (2019)
by lucian1900 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:29AM
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The why do the Soviet archives contain detailed accounts of Stalin himself (and several other leaders) discussing the matter and sending a recommendation against the wall? Why do the same archives tell us about the proposal of a unified neutral Germany after the war?
Re:How to get rich without being lucky (2019)
by WalterBright on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:58PM
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> recommendation
Recommending is not the same thing as ordering or proscribing.
> proposal
I'm sure a lot of proposals were floated and discussed.
Re:How to get rich without being lucky (2019)
by WalterBright on Sunday May 23, 2021 @03:14PM
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> after they were raised and trained with the resources of the poorer East
Yeah, I've heard that before. How the communists provided a free education, and so the citizens then owed a lifetime of servitude in return.
A similar kind of brain drain is happening all over Eastern Europe, to disastrous consequences. Especially with COVID it’s a massive problem that most trained medics have emigrated.