East Germany
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East Germany is mostly remembered as a chapter in Germany’s history where the eastern half of the country was a communist state that was centrally planned.
While East Germany reunified with West Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it’s easy to forget that the country was the most successful in the entire Eastern Bloc, even accounting for World War II reparations that it had to pay to the Soviet Union.