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Bear Faced 🇬🇧 Verified account @Bear_Faced Jun 14, 2023
I do believe that once the Ukrainians find their stride against #Russia, they are going to bestow upon the world a spectacle of wonder that even the Russians will marvel at.

We are going to witness some astonishing military deeds that will stand throughout all time as a monumental testament to Putin's abject stupidity, his lunatic folly and Russia's perpetual humiliation.

And those states who support #Russia in this criminal misadventure, this escapade of territorial avarice or who have been luke warm or non committal in support of Ukraine will be highlighted and found out in the same spotlight of shame.
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@visegrad24 … thank you for providing your assessment on the matter.

However here is my fully Fact Checked assessment on which my reply was based. And there is a particularly important historical lesson here.

Germany's post-war success was not simply a story of German determination, engineering excellence and industrial ingenuity. It was also a story of international labour mobility.

The country needed millions of additional workers to sustain its extraordinary economic expansion. It actively went abroad to recruit them, and those workers helped turn industrial recovery into sustained industrial prosperity.

It would be an exaggeration to claim that Germany would not have become an economic powerhouse without immigration however it would have taken far longer and would not have been as deep and successful as it was.

Equally, it would be historically misleading to minimise the substantial contribution that immigration made.

The strongest defensible conclusion is that immigration was an important pivotal enabling factor in the Wirtschaftswunder, particularly during its industrial expansion from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.

And perhaps the most revealing irony is that a country which subsequently became a major destination for economic migrants had itself deliberately recruited millions of foreign workers because its own booming economy could not find anywhere near enough people to do the work.

The same is equally true in other parts of Europe in particular in the Uk and France where similar economic, industrial and social transformations occurred due to immigration. These facts have of late… become very inconvenient and therefore suppressed by many in some quarters.

Sources: Available upon request.
#FactCheck #Fact_Check #Misinformation
Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 18h
@Bear_Faced It actually was Helga and Hans
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Who do you think rebuilt Germany after ww2 and transformed it into the industrial and financial powerhouse of Europe for the last ¾ of a century. Clue: It was not Helga and Hans.

The same story applies to France and the Uk.
Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 22h
Germany hosts approximately 3.7 million foreign-born Muslims, the highest number of any country without a Muslim-majority population.

Globally, Germany ranked fourth for Muslim immigrants, behind Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey. The figure excludes Muslims born in Germany.

Separately, United Nations figures show that Germany had approximately 16.8 million international migrants in mid-2024, second only to the United States, with 52.4 million.

Foreign-born residents accounted for 19.8% of Germany's population, compared with 15.2% in the United States.

36% of immigrants aged 15–64 in Germany who were not in education have no qualification above lower secondary level.
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