When the Berlin Wall came down, socialist East Germany was more polluted, poorer and sicker than West Germany.
According to David Legates’ “The Experiment: Capitalism versus Socialism,”
“State-guaranteed health care in the East did not translate into a healthier society. In 1990, life expectancy in the West was about 3½ years longer than in the East for men, and more than 2½ years longer for women.”
