PDS on the Berlin Wall - and present walls!

[Brad DeLong]

>Chris,
>       Calling the former GDR a "developing country"
>is a bit of a stretch.  Actually, in 1939 it was probably
>slightly ahead of the West in per capita income and
>in its level of industrialization.
>       A major reason for the income gap that existed
>in 1961 was that during the late 1940s, the USSR
>extracted reparations payments from the GDR, including
>the literal carting off of capital stock in the form of factories
>and machinery and equipment.

Much of which was never unpacked, IIRC...

Brad DeLong