[92] Let's talk about East Germany II

Scientists and senior engineers were also dissatisfied with this social egalitarianism, and although they were already much better treated than ordinary laborers, they felt that if they went to West Germany, they could earn more money and become more materially wealthy with their level of knowledge, so they began to flee to West Germany.

It took 10 years for the pig-headed leadership of the Communist Party of the GDR to figure out in 1960 that it was not until 1960 that it came to pass! Co-authoring should build a wall first!! So overnight, 60,000 East German People's Army went into battle, blocked the border, began to build the Berlin Wall, and built a second Great Wall...... The rabbit was also stabbed while lying down......

At this time, Western countries became more and more convinced that this matter could be exploited, so all kinds of underground propaganda became more and more intense. At this time, the trend of fleeing to West Germany became more and more intense under the agitation and propaganda of the West, and anyway, everyone thought that the past was heaven, and freedom was definitely more communist than communism...... In fact, many ordinary people are very unhappy in the past and later years, unless you are a scientist and a senior engineer or a professor or other big intellectuals, you will be promoted as a model, and find a job relatively quickly, otherwise you can only find a job to make ends meet, rent a house, and start from scratch. Many people went to West Germany without a satisfactory life, disgusted with the outright money worship and indifferent social relations, and began to miss the fragrance of the forests and rivers in their hometown, and the simple East German people.

So then there was a return of people, many people who hated capitalism, liked East Germany, liked socialism, returned to East Germany, and never wanted to leave.

Since the past is not much better, then in fact, as long as we wait, when the Soviet Union figures it out, in 1957 it will begin to vigorously build East Germany as a propaganda war window for the two camps, and West Germany, which is vigorously built by the West, will work against West Germany, and when the time comes, the living standards of East Germany in the sixties will immediately improve rapidly, and although Comrade Oulbrich, chairman of East Germany, does not understand the rural issues, he is a good hand at engaging in industry and science and technology. By the mid-60s, the average living standard of the working people in East Germany had surpassed that of West Germany, and even the lowest workers in society could easily have cars and houses. Agricultural products are cheap and abundant, and the government subsidizes ordinary workers for annual travel and recuperation! East Germany has established a large number of national holiday hotels, in addition to major enterprises have built their own holiday hotels, the purpose is very clear, that is, to let the people of East Germany can go out for vacation, but not to Western countries for vacation. The hotel in the resort is free, even the food in the restaurant in the hotel is free, the food is a buffet, there are all kinds of seafood and all kinds of fruit supply, the food supply is sufficient and rich, there is no need to scramble! Of course, there is a credit to the rabbit, who was very keen to exchange agricultural products for East German machinery and equipment.

In East Germany, the holiday index gave priority to industrial workers, and the vacation index of workers under the Jihua economy would be more than they could be used, and no one dared to embezzle, and there was once a clerical clerk in the factory director's office who lied about crane workers in order to get an extra index from the trade union that was originally a worker, and of course there were also officials who were corrupt, and embezzled a few from the holiday tourism indicators that were issued, and went to a few more times a year or cheapened other relatives, but corruption and the huge benefits brought by the nationalization of the means of production are a drop in the bucket. In addition to the annual state subsidy vacation, the common people of East Germany often drove their own homes to the beach or forest to hike on holidays.

"Work hard, enjoy yourself" was a very popular slogan in East Germany at this time.

The East Germans were not satisfied with the good haode in their own country, and went to other socialist countries for tourism and vacation, even if the beach was dirty and the hotel was broken, they were very happy, after all, they went abroad. The new secretary of the GDR, Honecker, believed that allowing the people to enjoy luxury was the best gesture of the party. It has to be said that the superior welfare enjoyment of advanced communism was also a reason for the collapse of East Germany.

With the support of the Soviet Union, the speed of East Germany's recovery was staggering, and it was the golden age of East Germany's development until the 70s, and in 1970 they entered one of the top ten advanced industrial countries in the world! This high welfare situation was 20 years ahead of West Germany until the eighties, when the West had completed preparations for the electronic and information industrial revolution and productivity was about to begin to accelerate.

In the 70s, East Germany also did a very second thing, and it can even be said that it was the second thing she ever did, what happened? It turned out that Comrade Ulbrich, who was good at industry and science and technology, had stepped down, and the new leader of East Germany, Comrade Honecker, was eager to show his hand. In addition, the workers of private enterprises are also very dissatisfied with their treatment so much worse than that of state-owned enterprises, so the workers have demanded nationalization, and Lao Tzu should also be a glorious state-owned enterprise worker! So East Germany responded to the call of the masses and nationalized a number of very competitive private enterprises, which was a mess, and private industry and commerce were one of the pillars of East Germany's economy. The private economy is inherently a big buffer, and the sunset industries that the state does not live and the enterprises that have no scientific and technological content can be thrown into the private sector and squeezed out the industrial oil and water with the harsh economic management of the private economy! Improving competitiveness, and at the same time fighting high welfare, will keep the employees of these enterprises from losing their jobs anyway, and the state will devote its energy to industrial upgrading and new sunrise industries. It's good that you East Germany have dismantled their own buffers.

In addition, can you manage these large and small dense private industries and businesses? How many cadres do you have to send down, not to mention that these small enterprises do not rely on the specialization and technology of cadres to manage haode, what these small enterprises need most is to reduce costs and constantly renovate, and scientific jishu or senior management level is not close to each other. Coupled with the fact that a large number of new workers also have to enjoy the high welfare benefits of state-owned enterprises, how can you reduce costs and improve competitiveness in this case? How big is the large number of workers here? If you think, private industry and commerce are basically light industry, that is, all kinds of labor-intensive such as textiles, toys, small commodities, small shops, and so on. Oh my god, not to mention the low profit margins of these companies, there are still a lot of workers. Besides, why should a precision machine tool manufacturing worker or a high-end optical equipment manufacturing worker be treated the same as a textile worker or a toy assembler? How many years does the former take to cultivate? How many people can come out and emerge as a top one? It's good now, the benefits are all the same. Do you really think that communist society has come ahead of schedule?