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They were still worse off than western europe
To quote a random politician who was talking about the eastern Germany wall: "Capitalism might not be perfect but at least we don't have to build a wall to keep our citizens in"
a yes the mexican border wall the perfect example.
capitalist mexico and central america sure can keep people in their country πΊπΈπΊπΈπΊπΈπΊπΈπΊπΈπΊπΈ
? I'm talking about the Berlin wall
Not because of capitalism, because of corruption, etc. Anyway, they try to escape to other capitilist countries
When stuff goes poorly in a socialist regime it's always "this is proof of socialisms short comings and shows the inherent inhumanity of such an ideology!" but when it comes to capitalism it's always "individual people who are corrupted misused the system to do harm, and yeah it keeps happening but it's not an inherent trait of our system!"
It is a trait of our system, noone said capitalism is perfect, its just better than communism