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Confidence votes 57.9K. In many ways life in East Germany, like in most Eastern Bloc countries, was drab and dreary-and of course regulated by the state. The economy was not very well geared to consumers.The essentials of life (food, housing, basic clothing, public transport) were cheap.onfidence votes 57.9K. In many ways life in East Germany, like in most Eastern Bloc countries, was drab and dreary-and of course regulated by the state. The economy was not very well geared to consumers.
Rather, West Germany effectively absorbed East Germany. Accordingly, on Unification Day, 3 October 1990, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist, and five new Federal States on its former territory joined the Federal Republic of Germany.eunification did, however, lead to a large rise in the average standard of living in former Eastern Germany and a stagnation in the West as $2 trillion in public spending was transferred East. Between 1990 and 1995, gross wages in the east rose from 35% to 74% of western levels, while pensions rose from 40% to 79%.