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Re:How to get rich without being lucky (2019) by detaro on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:17AM (#27253270)
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.

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Re:How to get rich without being lucky (2019) by lucian1900 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:29AM (#27253317)
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?
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Re:How to get rich without being lucky (2019) by WalterBright on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:58PM (#27260966)
> recommendation

Recommending is not the same thing as ordering or proscribing.

> proposal

I'm sure a lot of proposals were floated and discussed.

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