• Gosplan14 [any]
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    3 years ago

    But one year later a certain pizza enthusiast's (off topic fun fact: The GDR had pizza as early as 1983, according to some West German reportage I found) government, and his friends like Leonid Abalkin decided the way to go forward was to give indipendence to the companies and allow the market as the magical solution.

    Then again, what do you expect from deeply revisionist societies that allow even US-educated people like Miklós Németh to get into high positions in communist parties, due to the assumption that west = rich because markets and markets = rich

    • RollOfTape [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      west = rich because markets and markets = rich

      Depending on the demographic that's not a false statement.

      • Gosplan14 [any]
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        3 years ago

        See? That's the reasoning these social democratic reformists were going by. The market as a "cure-it-all" and a path to being "just like the west"

    • 6bicycles [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The GDR had pizza as early as 1983, according to some West German reportage I found)

      That picture shows a coffee house though