he's absolutely right though. there was a pulp and paper factory in my town which had almost 3,000 employees back in the day. it supplied the entire gdr with high gloss paper. today all that remains is ruins, debris and pasture. there is a sign that says that the soviets took away a big papermaking machine as reparations after the second world war. what the sign doesn't mention though is that the factory operated until 1992 when it was sold by the treuhand and everything that could be moved was shipped to east asia. the town and the surrounding towns have declined in population ever since.
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