Our Far-flung Correspondents
Krassimir reports from Eastern Europe:
Tags: Eastern Europe, euro
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The fruits of their labour…..
Top heavy again!
Nice cartoon—however, Communism is deader than any door nail known to us.
Hi,
I don’t want to cause much trouble, however I am not sure if the illustration should be here, or a link to the original source:
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15213108
Thanks!
The story goes that Shumacher (he of Small Is Beautiful) was giving a lecture in East Germany. The Communist slogan of the day was “Catch up and overtake”, i.e., the economies of the West.
“The economies of the West are light a freight train, speeding out of control towards an abyss where the bridge is out. But we will overtake them!”