> they were worried about brain drain. ok are you russian? if you're not and making stuff up like that it's just silly. no one could leave. the wall wasn't for engineers (who make up 0.0x% of the population), it was for everyone. because otherwise nearly everyone would have left, thus humiliating and demographically crippling the eastern block and more specifically countries like east germany or poland. this would have been devastating for their ideology. > in fact it is slightly working in reverse, with china using high salaries to poach engineers from taiwan and other western aligned countries. all chinamen who can make it to graduate school in the us obviously do it you relentless shill. chinks like in horrid conditions.
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