Vitaliy wrote:

>> Then there's of course the question what free education they were talking
>> about when they closed the border before 1950... Free lessons how to scrub
>> Russian tanks? :)
> 
> Hm... was there free education under the National Socialists? Maybe that was 
> the brain drain that the East Germans were trying to stop? ;)

There was no brain drain in the sense that there were better trained brains
in the GDR. There was a brain drain in the sense that there were better
conditions to make your brain work in the FDR (IMO of course), which is
what people with a brain tend to want to do :). 

There was free education in both the GDR and the FDR. I don't think the
education in the GDR was better, but for lack of distractions and possibly
more discipline, the students may have been better trained at the end. (I
don't think this holds for university; there the lack of modern technology
in the GDR was probably a problem.)

Gerhard

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