1992, Mean Real Gross Income in Euros:
West Germany: 26,408
East Germany: 15,928
Source: 20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity by Tilman Brück & Heiko Peters
Meanwhile, income inequality across Germany as a whole actually decreased after reunification because of Easterners getting richer:
While income inequality in West Germany has generally not altered in an [...]

Yesterday I suggested that a few people had a bizarre belief in the moral equivalence of the communist countries and the liberal democracies. I now realize that I was mistaken. There was no moral equivalence at all: per someone called Bruni de la Motte writing in the Guardian, the communists were better…

East Germans lost [...]

This is the face of a deeply despicable person.
I take it as granted that most people who write opinion pieces for newspapers are total idiots.  However, there is still a difference between your standard idiotic idiot and an evil idiot writing an evil column.  Here we have the latter with some disgraceful man going [...]

Last weekend I headed to Milan for a couple of days respite from my arduous academic duties. First stop, il Duomo, the largest gothic cathedral in the world and the second largest Catholic cathedral in the world (by floor area), it magnificently features much naked ass.

I stayed with a friend of mine who, unforewarned, did [...]