On: ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

[dukeyukey]

The rebuilding phase only really got started in the 90s! Integrating the post-communist states was a huge effort that is still arguably going on.

[Dylan16807 → dukeyukey]

A continent of people didn't sit in bombed out cities and countryside for fifty years before getting major repairs going, what are you talking about.

[dukeyukey → Dylan16807]

The damage from WW2 to Europe was not limited to bombing and killing, it includes the economic harm inflicted on Eastern Europe in the decades afterwards by the Soviets.