Triggers for the East-West divide after the Fall o...

Even after twenty years untied Germany still suffers from an East-West divide. Oliver Schmidtke, Jean Monnet Chair in European History and Politics at the University of Victoria, argues that one of the critical factors creating and nurturing this divide is a fundamental shortcoming in how the unification process was organized: German unification came about as a union between two very unequal partners. As a result, many East Germans never developed of sense of ownership with view to the ...