yeah they shot the only strong heir to Austria Hungary

And Austria Hungary got mad at serbia

then Russis tried to help Serbia

then Germany helped austria hungary

then france dogpiled on Germany

And Germany took a stroll through belgium

and the UK got mad

ww1

Germany wasn't even a thing at the time.

Literally didn't exist. It was the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Fucking huge ass empire in the middle of Europe.

Lost most of its territory in the war.

germany didn't exist when

@Arthur Grayborn it seems like they're actually not progressing more rapidly now

which is especially interesting considering germany has been pouring money into the region since reunification afaik

here is a calculation of the rate at which the ratio of east german to west german gdp per capita increased from the 29 year periods of 1960-1989 and 1989-2018

data for 1960 and 1989 taken from here http://www.memo.uni-bremen.de/docs/m3309.pdf

data for 2018 was done by using the most recent and accurate GRD per capita and population measurements available for all regions on wikipedia to calculate a west german and east german average (granted, berlin was excluded for obvious reasons, which may skew the result one way or the other)

The ratio is the key part: They went from 55% of what West Germans make to 69% between 1989 and 2018. They're on track to reach parity, but things like that are not fast, and most people are not willing to make the long term sacrifices necessary.

It's worth noting that if East Germany and West Germany grew at the same rate, East Germany would've gone from 0.55 to 0.55, but instead they closed some of the gap.

yeah but from the 29 year period of 1960 to 1989 they were reaching parity faster

God I miss the German empire

Is Wilhelm the 3rd still alive?

Oh

He died in the 50s

is there a 4th

@Death in June - Two possible causes for that:

1. Growth tends to level out after a certain point, which is why developing economies tend to see the fastest growth.

2. It's possible that the "punishment" of East Germany stopped after a period, so East Germany didn't bounce back from the war damage until much later than West Germany due to continued penalties by the Soviets.

A third is that West Germany was just growing so rapidly in the 1990s that it was hard for East Germany to keep up.

PSA to my fellow gamers. DONT BUY UBISOFT GAMES THROUGH STEAM. steam maybe based, redpilled and dare i say kino, but it is an absolute nightmare dealing with a game bought from, installed by and launch by steam but also goes through uplay.

feel free to buy Bethesda Games™ though

Kek.

@Cybel

so.. im on a different discord and someone posts
>Have y'all niggas heard of that girl who had her throat slit on Instagram
That shit wild

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@Ayylmao um no

just asking if any of you heard of the story, i cant tell if the guy saying it was being sarcastic

hey