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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Do you mean those countries that were receiving Soviet natural resources (gas and oil) almost for free? I do understand that Soviets did restrict their freedoms, but did they rip off the economics of those countries? How many trains with gold were sent from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Germany etc to the Soviet Union? Please explain.
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Because the Soviet Union didn't allow those countries to rebuild their war ravaged countries and economies on their own, they couldn't receive receive the money Western Europe got from the US via the Marshall Plan. They were 2nd class citizens in the Soviet empire, the Soviets took control of everything including their natural resources and sent them back the shittiest Soviet made products. They didn't get the Japanese electronics that your family got. They had to build the Berlin Wall because everybody in East Berlin was escaping to West Berlin where food, goods and money was flowing in from the West.