Thread:ChineseSocialist/@comment-45659987-20200925033517/@comment-46983813-20200930223036

Japan did not industrialize under the axis power, some decades before the ww1 the context there in east asia was quite different from what was going on in africa. The axis were extremely imperialists and not just ethiopia but entire africa was under their sigth, most of their non central allies were either military dictatorships or absolute monarchies who wanted to modernize small aspects of society, selassie himself was of this type, not really the industry though.

We actually had the chance of becoming a military power and one of the first relatively industrialized countries in africa last century after the revolution and the removal of the monarchy. The real process would obviously take place in a more stable post war scenario as no actual industry could be developed in that mess ethiopia turned out.

In 1985 mengistu signed an agreement with the soviet union, east germany, and north korea to establish arms production in the country. Unfortunately, the soviet union and the rest of the eastern europe backed out in 1987 because of that pig gorbachev, but north korea alone was still willing to fulfill the agreement, and it would take them 5 to 6 years to complete, so by 1993 at the latest we would have been making tanks, scud missiles, air to ground missiles for fighter planes, and other stuff.

But because mengistu was overthrown in 1991, the only thing they accomplished by was small arms manufacturing that still exists in ethiopia until this day. Later we did no progress under meles zenawi and our entire basic infrastructure and industry was built by derg and mengistu, only now after 20 years of national betrayal we are back taking very small steps toward relative prosperity.