People in East Germany were put under the social system of Communism after WWII after the Soviets claimed there a part of Germany due to the agreements between the Allies and Soviets.

After WWII Russia had been hit hard by the war and many of there factories, roads, bridges, cities and other infrastructure and other supply chains had been destroyed when the German armies invaded mainland Russia in 1941 and Russia had to devote a huge amount of the rest of the country’s resources in military power rarther than repairs to there country to hold off the invasion. This left Russia resources relatively low and did not have the manpower to fix what had been damaged.

To solve this Russia came into East Germany and seized a great amount german citizens, factories supply to go back to mainland Russia to fix these repairs. Russia basically took everything from East Germany that would help rebuild russia as this was thier primarily concern.

Meanwhile, the Allies that also had major damage done to them made it their primary goal to help rebuild and reeducate West German citizens and make the country a better place as they didn’t want a repeat of what happened after WWI(which is what lead WW2 beginning)(although they did dissarm West germany in the process). Ultimatley the West geamans also had choice and were allowed to travel else where unlike East germans.

The Allies also introduced the Duche mark currency to West Germany which greatly out valued the currency of East Germany. This is what lead to West Germanys economic recovery.

Also between 1945-50 its approximated that well over 500,000 perhaps even close to a million women were raped after the red army came through East Germany. Some victums were assulted up to 70-80 times. This all happend as the soviets didn’t have a proper law system up and running in East Germany yet. The only controll they had was the red army them selves which wernt peace keepers, they were soliders. Now we cant complty deny that this didnt happen in the West as it is approximated that nealy 100000 may of been raped by US soliders in the west.

There is numrence amounts of other things such as the berlin wall which was to hold all East germans in as many wanted to leave to the West for a better life