Purchasing power parity, GDP per capita of Nigeria is around 5000$, while GDP per capita of Mexico is around 20 000$. Mexico is thus four times more prosperous than Nigeria.
(For comparision USA- GDP per cap is over 63 000, with people of Mexico four times more prosperous per one person than...
Polish economy had superior performance since 1993-1994. During late 90s, much before any "billions of Euros", economic superiority of Poland was obvious and firm.
From wikipedia.
Would there be any need to invade the Soviet Union, with the Nazi Germany pretty busy with clearing France for their living space and starving French cities to death? (...this sounds disgusting to write, but perhaps I'm slightly masochistic xd ).
Would they even manage to occupy France?
Generally speaking there is shortage of welders or electricans in most developed countries, and qualified manual workers are paid well.
The problem is, the more people go to the University, the stupider you look if you choose a trade, even if it's paid better. And people dislike feeling stupid...
OTL while Hitler disliked French people as enemies, he considered them to be better than Slavs.
What had he instead believed the French "race" (even use of the word "race" is utter idiocy in this context, of course) to be only slightly above Jews and below Slavs, and decided to demolish Paris...
I'm not sure that Austria could be a danger to anything stronger than Yugoslavia, and that is even if Hungary agrees to peaceful (re)unification, and even if Czechoslovakia is by some miracle persuaded to surrender to a power not much stronger than itself.
It would be a fascist state comparable...
I don't really believe in justice.
Humans are social animals, and we make decisions because of our childhood experiences, local culture, peer pressure. A decision to become a murderer or a war criminal is never fully "free". Free will is an illusion.
That said, punishment is also a type of...
Annexing Stettin only as a symbolic gesture sounds absolutely more realistic than dealing with both integration of GDR, war damage and whole Pomerania full of Poles.
Depends how often these birth defects happened. And I'm not sure that this one part is realistic, animals around Chernobyl, including mammals like wolves, are able to reproduce after all. Radical increase in defects surely, but generation utterly unable to live, humph...
When there is not enough equipment and electricity for universal use of radio and TV, and yet your military forces are able to retain control & extract taxes/tribute from rural areas, a Soviet idea from 1940' can be used - sometimes there was one loudspeaker in the center of village, where...
Civilisation and government in Threads continued to function. As far as I remember the movie, most of the urban population died from starvation in organised camps (instead of completely overflowing the countryside), and military was able to squash dissent. Twenty years later Britain was perhaps...
Generally speaking, subsistence, where you have enough wheat-equivalent to live and work as adult (about half of children died) - note, that you can suffer from bad nutrition, you need to be able to work your field and remain alive, not be in good health - lies around 400$ (1990 purchasing power...
According to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)
In the absence of sufficient data for nearly all economies until well into the 19th century, past GDP cannot be calculated, but at best only roughly estimated. In a first step, economic historians try to reconstruct...