suprising map showing how rich eastern europe used to be in 1965

[Žołnir]

No no i was born in Yuga but i lived there only 2 years.

PS; i forgot to say nothing is free not even state financed services.

[Energia]

Me too can't see that map fuuuuuuu
how did you do Malta??

[Corvus]

Austria on the same level as Eastern States.
Well that does not surprise me

[Hochmeister]

Ye, ye, Yuga was super rich.... thats why my dad was having problems getting building material for house....

And Hungarians have problems to buy paint for cosmetic alterations, because everything is very expensive in our days and they lived better in Socialism.

[Peyrol]

its from an old west german schoolbook i own. It was released in the 1970s.

The numbers are Deutsche Mark, meaning gdp per capita in deutsche mark. As you can see eastern europe was as rich as japan, Italy, Austria and Ireland at the time. These light blue countries had a gdp per capita of 2500-5000 deutsche mark while the purple countries had a gdp over 5000 dm. Venezuela is also light blue and kuwait is purple its probably because both countries had much oil at the time and a smaller population meaning more wealth for fewer people.

You also can see how southern europeans were behind to northern states except for italy. The white countries are the poorest with a gdp per capita lower than 250 mark.

Italy in 1965 wasn't ''rich'', but was in the developement phase called ''Miracolo economico'', lasted from 1955 to 1970.

[Energia]

Can you post the map via tinypic or imashack for instance?since it's still unvisible to me (and I don't know why)

[Virtuous]

Can you post the map via tinypic or imashack for instance?since it's still unvisible to me (and I don't know why)

There you go, son

[Žołnir]

And Hungarians have problems to buy paint for cosmetic alterations, because everything is very expensive in our days and they lived better in Socialism.

To bad for Hungars. I guess some nations are better off in totalitarian systems.

[Hochmeister]

To bad for Hungars. I guess some nations are better off in totalitarian systems.

[Žołnir]