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Western Germany got a lot of money from the US to rebuild. I guess you could give capitalism credit for that, but it certainly helped that the US didn't have more than 1000 cities destroyed like the Soviet Union had.


What's the difference? US capitalists built the Soviet industrial base to begin with. There were few things the Soviets could do industrially for themselves, they were extraordinarily incompetent.

http://www.americanheritage.com/content/how-america-helped-b...




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