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In terms of living standards, East Germans are the clear winners of communism’s collapse. Since rapid privatization decimated the local industrial base, however, they remain heavily dependent on transfers of Western wealth i> by JEFFREY KOPSTEIN WHILE THE ECONOMIC POLICIES OF other ex-communist countries shift back and forth between marketization and social protection, and as […]