Big Miku

The factory must grow!

Mainly mercantilism which just means that everyone wants to only export and importing stuff is literally the worst thing in the world. Mercantilism also had a lot more state restrictions on it compared to capitalism.

Feudalism mainly died out in the 1400’s when more of the power was centralised to the king instead of their vassals.

The East German economy was first hindered by the Soviet Occupation Zone which claimed 60% of the industry. The Soviets didn’t offer any help to their occupation zone, but they did transfer the cost occupation to the Germans, and demanded reparations from them as well. Only by 1953 when Stalin died, were the factories returned to the GDR.

In 1953 there was a huge uprising against the SED. This uprising was the result of the attempts at a “accelerated construction of socialism in the GDR” which meant that the government would try to accelerate the transition of socialism by heavily investing in heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture. This lead to lessening of products in the civilian market, and to food prices increasing due to more wealthier farmers escaping to the west, leading to farmland being unused. And lastly the work quota increases which demanded that people worked 10% more for the same wage as before. These policies led to more people fleeing to the west, which lead to the GDR reversing course on the collectivization, and the investments on heavy industry being shifted towards consumer goods. But the quota increases weren’t reversed and stayed in effect. This lead to a protest in which the people demanded this to be reversed and that free elections were implemented. This protest had a million people in it, so it wasn’t a small protest. This protest was of course suppressed by the Soviet Army and the Stasi, who arrest over 10,000 people, and executed 32-40 people.

And during the Seven-Year plan which started in 1959 with the goal of reaching the per capita production of West Germany. And what did they implement? Increased quotas, and the emigration to the West shot up once. And since emigration increased, there were less farmers, which lead to a food shortage in the GDR.

Due to a steady industrial decline from 1959 the leader of the GDR Ultrich implemented the New Economic System (NES) in 1963, which would make the economy more decentralized, in hopes that it would reverse the course of industrial decline. The results of this new economic policy did reverse the decline, but no as much as the state wanted. And the growth was more a result of increased investment than actual improvements in the system. This failure to meet expectations lead to a new policy called Economic System of Socialism (ESS), which also failed to meet expectations, and was terminated in 1970.

So it seems that the failures of the GDR were more because of economic mismanagement than western propaganda. Of course I am open to other ideas on the topic that you could provide, but this just seems more plausible to me.

And on the CIA being worse than the Stasi, I will just give it to you, since I can’t be bothered to read more after about 2 hours of reading GDR history and economic policies, and writing this thing.

Also feel free to correct me if you think I got something wrong, or I worded something badly, since I am not a good writer by any means.

I would say the DDR failed due the Stasi, which was a part of everyone’s lifes. This control was so tight that they had a informant in every appartment and also in every factory.

Also the “Order to Fire” (a policy that allows people to be shot if they try to cross the border out of the DDR) policy shouldn’t have ever existed in a proper state. If you have to build a giant wall and arm it with guards who are ready to shoot to kill just to keep people in, is it really a good place to live?

It goes to 9 minutes from 8, since every single communication gadget will yell out that the sun has disappeared as reports come in from the other side of the earth.

Not that I know of, but it should be added in for those who don’t want to interact with people from Hexbear. If people have the freedom to block an instance for themselves it would expand the decentralization that Lemmy is built on, since people don’t have to move to those instances to block out Hexbear.

I’ve read that blocking the Hexbear domain is a solution to this, but that isn’t a proper solution, since those who aren’t tech-literate would have a pretty hard time doing that, so a first-party solution would be the best.

I honestly forgot where this meme was posted and thought it was a really weird shitpost.

From what I’ve read depleted uranium is not proven to cause cancer, nor is it not proven (With the exception that you inhale it or eat it).

In Iraq it’s still up to debate if it causes cancer or birth defects, since burning buildings and other burning stuff also causes a lot of nasty things to humans.

From what I’ve read they were also used in Bosnia, and they haven’t had similiar effects to Iraq.

So let the Ukrainians have their depleted uranium.

Oh damn, an article containing a topic about Russia and Cuba. I hope this post will contain a civil conversation about the topic without it derailing into a giant fighting pit about the United States.

If this happens they’ll do the “A person who swears to tell the truth and nothing but the truth says what” ordeal. If that doesn’t work they will just let you leave