Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Reparations andcapitalist progress.

[Brad De Long]

>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

Touche. But true for some definitions of "Soviet era" but not others, IIRC...


Brad DeLong