[Marxism] Re: Dividing Germany again?

[l.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lueko Willms)]

.    On  21.11.04
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NG> However, German influence over the Danube Basin as a whole cannot be
NG> underrated. One of the things that stroke me most strongly when I
NG> visited Belgrade, in 2001, was that the local petty bourgeoisie, when
NG> they talked in terms of "international money", made their reference
NG> to DMarks, not to USDollars.

   There were and are hundreds of thousands of "Guest workers" from  
Jugoslavia in (West) Germany, they were for some tine the strongest  
contingent e.g. here in Frankfurt am Main. This started loooong time  
ago.

   So they all brought their money home from Germany.

   Also Jugoslavia, especially Serbia, was a place where kind of  
maquiladoras worked for German companies, e.g. in the textile  
industry, just sewing clothes which were cut in Germany, and sold  
here. This was ended with the embargo imposed by the "international  
community" under leadership of the USA. These plants were ruined and  
the German principal had to look for maquiladoras in other countries.

   Also, the very popular cheap red wine from Kosovo, "Amselfelder"  
(which is the German adjective form of Kosovo, or Blackbird Fields)  
could no longer be exported to Germany. The US really did ruin quite a  
number of long dated economic cooperation between German capitalism  
and Tito's Jugoslavia.

   The DEM (Deutsche Mark, DM) was declared official currency in  
Kosovo after the war, and is now certainly replaced by the Euro.

   In Albania, though, they prefer the USD, I heard.


Saludos,
Lüko Willms                                     http://www.mlwerke.de
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