EAST GERMANY AND WEST GERMANY.

EAST GERMANY AND WEST GERMANY. There was a controlled experiment run for about forty years comparing Communism in East Germany and capitalism in West Germany from an economic point of view. The East German economy was a huge failure. West Germany prospered. Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of Germany, I encountered some German lawyers I had worked with. I congratulated them. They agreed, but then they both said that now Germany was going to have to find useful work for hundreds of thousands of people who only knew how to spy on other people. In the event, more than fifteen years after unification, and after years of massive subsidies, East Germany is still way behind, and it is estimated that it will take many more years to catch up.