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Originally Posted by Mutt
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.
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Everything you have written above is not true. My family had no Japanese electronics (please re-read my posts carefully). My mother has traveled to Poland and Czechoslovakia to buy products from Western Europe and Asia (shoes, clothes and even books(!!!) etc). Those guys lived a way better than Soviet Union citizens. Don't even try to argue about that with me. A trip to one of those countries was a pink dream for everybody here. As I said above, the Soviet Union was not a classic empire. It hasn't sucked resources from its "colonies". It has gave them its own resources for free. That's why all Soviet Union citizens had a dream to get a trip to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Germany etc and buy the things you could never find here.
P.S. Man, your knowledge about Soviet Union is a real weird...
P.P.S. My uncle has spent 3 years working in Mozambique (a country in Africa) to buy Japanese electronics in
Berezka. It was absolutely impossible to buy them in a regular Soviet shop, even if you were a millionaire. That's one more reason why I hate commies.