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Re:North Korean Market Prices Suggest Serious Food Shortages by kneebonian on Saturday June 24, 2023 @12:42PM (#36460222)
Eh almost none of WW1 was fought in German soil so they came out of WW1 with most of their economic capacity intact minus several million young men.
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Re:North Korean Market Prices Suggest Serious Food Shortages by kaesar14 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @01:00PM (#36460461)
And World War 2 saw a complete leveling of most of the country…
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Re:North Korean Market Prices Suggest Serious Food Shortages by ericd on Saturday June 24, 2023 @02:33PM (#36461427)
But then massive investment by the US.
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Re:North Korean Market Prices Suggest Serious Food Shortages by kaesar14 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @09:22PM (#36464330)
Sure but parent comment is blowing off a lot of factors working against Germany’s spectacular recovery lol. “Several million young dead men” is a bit of an understatement too
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Re:North Korean Market Prices Suggest Serious Food Shortages by fragmede on Saturday June 24, 2023 @09:45PM (#36464429)
but, owing to cultural changes, it turns out that women can also perform the work necessary for an economy to function.
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Re:North Korean Market Prices Suggest Serious Food Shortages by kaesar14 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:18AM (#36469128)
Losing millions of your own population isn’t something that can be brushed off.
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Re:North Korean Market Prices Suggest Serious Food Shortages by ericd on Sunday June 25, 2023 @12:06PM (#36469694)
It’s not like those women were doing nothing before, so something else gets deprioritized.
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