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With a Cold War that ends with the peaceful collapse of the Warsaw Pact (but not necessarily the USSR itself), how could the unification of West Germany and East Germany be prevented?
With a Cold War that ends with the peaceful collapse of the Warsaw Pact (but not necessarily the USSR itself), how could the unification of West Germany and East Germany be prevented?
East Germany can't be utterly bankrupt and without the USSR to prop up their economy. Unless the GDR can stand on it's own in a market economy driven world they will collapse and need West Germany to take them on and the FRG will NEED to take them on because of the resulting refugee crisis and huge problems then connecting with the rest of Europe as East Germany turns into a wasteland that just happens to sit on the rail links with Poland and Czechoslovakia.With a Cold War that ends with the peaceful collapse of the Warsaw Pact (but not necessarily the USSR itself), how could the unification of West Germany and East Germany be prevented?
The "warsaw Pact" (the military part) might fall, but ... maybe the Comecon stays (more or less) intact, evolving into something like the EU ?With a Cold War that ends with the peaceful collapse of the Warsaw Pact (but not necessarily the USSR itself), how could the unification of West Germany and East Germany be prevented?
The "warsaw Pact" (the military part) might fall, but ... maybe the Comecon stays (more or less) intact, evolving into something like the EU ?
Could give the GDR a chance to stay economically afloat.
I thought it was the other way around. Didn't East Germany pay tribute to the Soviet Union?Eastern Europe would really appreciate using economic resources to keep the GDR afloat even as they all have their own problems over transitioning to a free market yeah the poles Hungarians, Romanian, Czechs, and Slovaks would really appreciate keeping the GDR afloat from their own pockets all because the East and West can't be bothered to hammer out a deal
That was the assassination of Detlev Rohwedder, Manager of the Treuhand. While there was increasing anger about the handling of the economic transition, the murder of Rohwedder actually resulted in a backlash against the growing movement, which saw itself somehow suddenly associated with political radicalism.Of interest, there was a murder in 1990 / 1991 - I forget the details - of the head of the West German organization to transform the East German economy. The Red Army Faction assassinated the man in charge of closing state industries. Therefore, there was some opposition to unification away from West German official concerns over just costs. In the immediate years following unification too, there was trouble - arson and murder - where foreign workers brought to the GDR before the collapse and who didn't return home, were targeted by neo-nazis.