Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Reparations and capitalist progress.

[Doug Henwood]

Brad De Long wrote:

>Nah. Not consistent with the post-WWII relative growth of Germany 
>and the USSR, or West and East Germany, or Japan and the USSR. Can't 
>call the USSR's post-WWII recovery "fast" by comparison with the 
>recovery of the defeated axis powers...

According to Maddison's stats, the Soviet era was the only time that 
Russia narrowed the income gap with the "West." Ditto most of Eastern 
Europe, at least until the late 1970s/early 1980s.

Doug