Dit is een reactie (in een discussie met mij in een ander forum) over de DDR jaren tachtig:
Hij verwijt mij dat ik de toestand ter plaatse nooit zag.
Citaat:
This has nothing to do with poverty. Most people had more money that they could spend. It had to do with wrong allocation of resources in the economy. Until the mid 70s things were not great but basically ok. In the early 80s the economic system simply imploded and entire quarters of many cities looking like that was the visible sign. The economy as a whole was not able any more to provide the resources to maintain houses in inhabitable states. Why do you think the regimes in easter Europe disappeared zu quietly? They had simply run out of steam.
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Ze waren niet arm maar verkrotten?