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10 THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL
because the people and culture were very similar before the division
into separate communist and capitalist countries after World War II.
The findings show that communism is a superior system in virtually all
respects. However, West Germany began with far greater income and
wealth than East Germany, and faster economic growth in East Germany
had reduced this income disparity by the time of its demise in
1990 but had not eliminated it. The higher incomes of West Germany
represented an extremely important attrac.tion by itself in making people
prefer to live in West Germany. In addition, the relative poverty of
East Germany also forced additional disadvantages on East Germans
in terms of the government repression needed to prevent the richer and
much more powerful West Germany from using capitalist economic
warfare, propaganda, outright sabotage, and other activities to under­
mine the East German communist system.
Chapter 3 describes more details of the East German system that help
clarify exactly how and why the communist system (despite its superi­
ority) was overthrown in 1989-90. Contrary to popular belief, East Ger­
mans were not seeking to rid themselves of an undesirable system but,
instead, were revolting against their relative poverty.
Continuing with the German case, Chapter 4 provides a detailed com­
parison of the economic efficiency of the communist and capitalist
financial systems. While there are similarities, the communist financial
system is shown to be more effective overall. Despite its superior effi­
ciency, East Germany was poorer than West Germany because it had
had to pay an enormous amount of reparations to the Soviet Union after
World War II. These reparations payments, which represented partial
compensation for all the damages inflicted on the Soviet Union by Nazi
Germany as a whole, had a value equal to several times East Germany's
annual output. West Germany, on the other hand, was not only spared
from having to make such payments, but it also received substantial.
financial aid from the richer USA (which had been untouched by World
War II). While the greater financial and economic efficiency of the East
German system allowed it to partially catch up for the huge difference
in incomes that existed in the two countries at their founding in 1949, it
was not able to fully overtake West Germany by 1989.
Chapter 5 details an economic plan for how East Germany could have
survived and prospered, even with the opening of the Berlin Wall, even
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with forced economic integration, and even with the East Germans'
natural desire for Western income levels. While the plan (which I created
in 1989 and presented to various leaders shortly after the opening
of the Berlin Wall) has never been used in practice, economic analysis
indicates that it provides a viable means for countries to prosperously
survive in a capitalist world (and actually offers a very positive alternative
to traditional forms of both capitalism and communism).
Chapter 6 explains how the USA's Cold War victory has resulted
in the world turning more and more toward free-market systems (i.e.,
global capitalism). The defeat of the communist Soviet Union has not
only created a very powerful propaganda tool for the USA and its capitalist
system, but it has also removed the one world power that used
to be able to challenge USA domination and counter USA threats. The
USA's successful push toward a world market economy (via persuasion
and extortion) is shown to have led to widespread poverty and economic
catastrophes, especially related to currency crises, and especially
in the newly capitalist countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe. In addition, the economic disaster of the German unification
itself is explained to have contributed to a chain of events that has further
contributed to the worldwide economic crises.
Chapter 7 concludes the book with a political analysis of USA world
domination after the Cold War. As indicated there, the atrocities of the
USA and the cruelty of the USA's capitalist system continue unabated.
The Triumph of Evil: the Reality of the USA s Cold War Victory is a
factual book that leads to one implication for action: overthrow the evil
capitalist system by voting it out of power. In the hands of the people,
the facts will ensure that the Cold War victory for the USA and capitalism
was only a temporary one, and that justice will eventually prevail
via the ballot box.