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Originally Posted by Mutt
You're the weird one, you claim over and over you are anti-Communist and anti-Putin but you spend most of your time defending the Soviet Union and Putin's Russia.
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I couldn't have said it better myself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc
At the same time, at the war's end, the
Soviet Union adopted a "plunder policy" of physically transporting and relocating east European industrial assets to the Soviet Union.[136] Eastern Bloc states were required to provide coal, industrial equipment, technology, rolling stock and other resources to reconstruct the Soviet Union.[137]
Between 1945 and 1953, the Soviets received a net transfer of resources from the rest of the Eastern Bloc under this policy of roughly $14 billion, an amount comparable to the net transfer from the United States to western Europe in the Marshall Plan.[137][138] "Reparations" included the dismantling of railways in Poland and Romanian reparations to the Soviets between 1944 and 1948 valued at $1.8 billion concurrent with the domination of SovRoms.[135]
In addition, the Soviets re-organised enterprises as joint-stock companies in which the Soviets possessed the controlling interest.[138][139]
Using that control vehicle, several enterprises were required to sell products at below world prices to the Soviets, such as uranium mines in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, coal mines in Poland, and oil wells in Romania.[140]
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So thanks to USSR the whole eastern bloc went bankrupt morally, economically etc, and its still at least 20 years behind western EU