• GenosseFlosse@feddit.org
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    17 hours ago

    Change my mind: this did not happen because the EU made a lot of progress, but simply because the US and other countries went backwards since the 1990s.

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      12 hours ago

      A bit of both, but there’s no denying that a lot of countries, especially in the east, got a lot better. Still plenty do do, sure, but things have improved by a lot. Both economically and socially the countries that ware behind the iron curtain have seen massive improvements.