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37 - The Triumph of Broken Promises w/ Fritz Bartel

Spaßbremse

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The Price of Victory in the Eastern Bloc

The two sides aren't economic equals. The West begins to make promises in the early 1970s and it remains vastly richer by the end of that era. Mass consumption becomes a reality in the West and it's far off in the East. In the 1990s, Western expectations begin to crumble as well but the West doesn't have anything to worry about except its own expectations.

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