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2023-05-09 08:04:55 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: E6AD93D9225E585B2CF5ED6135347ED948A1E870BDBB13B237BC7F173CC6CF55
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According to Angus Madison, East Germany's GDP per capita in 1950 was 65% that of West Germany. By 1970, it was 59%, and, in 1990, 27%. East Germany, in 1961, also had to build a wall to keep its citizens in. https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/world_economy.pdf https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall
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