
The Long Economic Shadow of World War II in Europe
The Economic History Podcast
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The Differences Between East and West in Eastern Europe
East germany gets this huge number of refugees from the east, right? So its population is 25 % bigger in 19 15 and in 19 39. But also, the other one is is bulgaria. And definitely it's true that that, in a labor force is much more flexible in both east germany and bulgaria, but only for a very short time. The issue also is that eastern europe is made up of essential three very different regions,. Or what we talked about as eastern europe in the socialist period, is threevery different regions. You have the central european countries that are actually the comparable counterparts to southern europe. Look at basic things
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