Comparison of Energy Policies in East Germany and Czechoslovakia at the Turn of the 1970s

The study focuses on solutions to energy problems in East Germany and Czechoslovakia within the limits of their own and Comecon primary sources. It analyzes the dependence on the oil and gas import from the Soviet Union and the differences in energy policies of the governments in Berlin and Prague. The work underlines the importance of brown coal reserves for the national economies of the countries in question and the difficulties building the fuel and energy bases in smaller European countries. It outlines the bias of the East German energy structure in contrast to the Czechoslovak efforts for stratification. In both countries, construction of nuclear power plants was designed and subsequently executed: Rheinsberg, Greifswald in the GDR; Jaslovské Bohunice and later on, Mochovce and Dukovany in the CSSR.The cooperation problems among so-called socialist countries in energy industries are mentioned, as well as the results of their discussions: the Druzhba pipeline or the mutual construction project of the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant.