08.05.2015, Strategic
Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)
As a rule, when Western economists offer estimates of
the reparations that were delivered to the USSR after the Second World War,
they more or less agree with the figures published in the 1980s by the West
German government. The overwhelming majority of the reparations sent to the
USSR from the countries of Eastern Europe were in the form of the products
being manufactured at that time in those nations. It is worth noting that some
Eastern European countries were sending reparations to the USSR while
simultaneously receiving Soviet aid. The following table provides estimates
taken from the work of the American economist Peter Liberman. These figures show
that 85% of all the reparations deliveries from Eastern
Europe to the Soviet Union came from the German Democratic Republic.
The balance of
transfers from the countries of Eastern Europe to the USSR, 1945-1960
