>>34531
>Did they fire with rubber bullets? Live rounds (well rubber is live, I mean with real bullets with steel and led and such) would be a little risky and early to use.
Live ammunition, .40 cal to be exact.
>What was the issue?
Getting them to abandon their strike.

>In relation to this, the western (German) companies can invest here, opening local branches (or buying up existing Hungarian companies, incorporating them into their structures), so the average Eastern Euro worker is sweating for making the rich countries richer, by producing their goods, and then consuming them, giving back the money they earned from them.
That still develops the easterners a bit, capital flows in and at least a minority of the profits stay.