Voting with Their Feet The Protracted Conflict

Communist paradises have this peculiarity, that people don’t want to live in them. The cliché for this syndrome, handily adapted from Lenin by some gifted journalist in reference to the constant drain from East to West Berlin when the drain was still possible, is “voting with their feet.”

I have been looking at the figures, and they make illuminating reading. Starting from now and working back, the picture looks like this.