O medo do comunismo soviético (parte I)

Lembram-se da União Soviética?
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Leonid Brejnev rings a bell?
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Yuri Andropov, ou o eterno Andrei Gromiko?
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Por vezes dou comigo a pensar que precisamos, outra vez, do medo do comunismo soviético.
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Se viram a Grande Reportagem SIC desta semana podem começar a imaginar sobre o que escrevo.
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Sem o medo do comunismo soviético a decisão política desaparece ou esmorece para dar lugar à decisão tecnocrática que normalmente aponta para a maximização dos lucros, para o aumento do PIB... mas não tem em conta a felicidade dos povos.
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Com o papão do comunismo soviético bem vivo seria possível acontecer a Nipponisation da Alemanha? Seria possível a economia de um país assentar praticamente em exclusivo na exportação?
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"WH: Germany matches Japan to an uncanny degree. You talk about the Nipponisation of the world economy: I'm not so sure. But I would talk about the Nipponisation of Europe via a German economy at its centre in the grip of the same problem - and that starts to be a global problem.
PK: Germany has huge inadequacy of domestic demand. Their economic recovery in the first seven years of this decade rested on the emergence of gigantic current account surplus.
How is it possible that Germany, which did not have a house price bubble, is having a steeper GDP fall than anyone else in the major economies?
The answer is that they depended upon exporting to the bubble regions of Europe, so they actually got side-swiped by the loss of those exports worse than the bubble regions themselves got hit.
It's Germany on a global scale that is the concern. We worry about the drag on world demand from the global savings coming out of east Asia and the Middle East, but within Europe there's a European savings glut which is coming out of Germany. And it's much bigger relative to the size of the economy."
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Normalmente desconfio de Krugman mas cá vai "Paul Krugman's fear for lost decade"