>>537798692
Capitalism, you idiot.

They made an alliance with Jews and they shared their wealth with them.

>>537798692
East still hasn't fully recovered from soviet era. Including east Germany

>>537798795
Russia/Soviets is basically just a civilisational black hole that pulls all wealth and happiness from it's sphere of influence but somehow it never improves Russia itself. Russians don't actually steal wealth they somehow make it despawn

East had to fight with invading browns and yellows for centuries while West made wine and had the privilege of killing eachother over theology

They aren't. Eastern Europe with gibs and unbridled by the € has officially surpassed Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal. You must be mentally dead to think you can magically divine "racial destiny" from the random happenstances derived from socio-political situations at any given moment.

>>537799050
We didn't steal anything. All those places were poor before we took them.

Cold, forested, indefensible, hard to integrate into maritime / riverine trade and development networks. The juice wasn't worth the squeeze for western civilization pushing east and they were constantly menaced by steppeniggers up until firearms came into use

>>537798692
Simplest explanation is initial development was caused by the fact that western europe was part of roman empire, later differences were because of abolishment of serfdom happened earlier in the west and only recently in the east (less than 200 years ago in some cases) freeing up workforce for more efficient agriculture and industrialization.

>>537798692
Most of your history involves fighting against horselords & were never centralized under an empire to empower logistics. Everything "civilized" you have is from the Eastern Romans.

>>537798761
these commies are brain rotted

>>537798692
Slavheads are more landlocked meaning less fish which makes you more intelligent/creative. That's why Bongs and Japs contain the most moggage on Earth

>>537798692

Mainly the Cold War.