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Originally Posted by SeijiSensei
East Germany was poorer than West Germany, but it was still the most prosperous Warsaw Pact country. The gap between the Koreas is orders of magnitude greater than between the two Germanies before unification.
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Yeah, East Germany wasn't actually that poor, it's just that West Germany was so extremely rich. The East German economy was somewhere between the Netherlands and Switzerland. And much larger than that of South Korea of that time, btw.