&gt;<i>It&#x27;s funny though West Germany, which was completely ruined by WW2 emerged as a lot more prosperous country than what India did for the first 40 years. Do you have any idea how badly Germany was bombed. If you say things like &quot;But Germany is an exception because X&quot;, then think why East Germany couldn&#x27;t be as rich. East Germany was about as poor as West Germany after WW2.</i><p>Well, West Germany is an exception because it gotten a Cold War ally and darling immediately after the war.<p>They&#x27;re also very favorably placed in the center of Europe, and were given lots of help to try to rebuild their economy (their sugar daddy allowing them to pay only minimal war recuperations, cheap migrant hands from Turkey and Greece, etc).<p>They also didn&#x27;t have instability of the kind India faced post-colonialism, since the ex British rulers (as is their standard mode of operation everywhere, from Israel&#x2F;Palestine to Cyprus&#x2F;Northern Cyprus etc.) used a divide and conquer tactic, playing Indian, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc one against the other.<p>And of course it&#x27;s not just the starting state (Germany being bombed, India being poor) but also things like human capital, etc. Germany, post WWII, had far more educated people, industrial experience and infrastructure (as a percentage) compared to India.<p>As for East Germany, it was depended on USSR which didn&#x27;t have the same kind of economic resources as the US, nor did other communist countries it mostly traded with.<p>&gt;<i>All Indians do is give excuses for why India was poor</i><p>Yes, those lazy Indians, always up to no good. There are no historical reasons, just lazy, ignorant, people.<p>&#x2F;s