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One of the hypothesis that the soviets proposed for post WW2 settlement (I do not remember exactly if at Yalta or at Potsdam or somewhere else), was to utterly spoil germany of its industry infrastructure and reduce it forcibly to an agrarian state.
Such a country would have been (according to the proposal) united and independent from the two blocks.
Was is a possible option, at least in the short run?
How to accomplish that?
What the consequences?
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