Government control of Eastern European industrial policy led to inefficiencies and decreased consumer motivations; production became inefficient and heavy pollution was generated.
Step-by-step explanation:
It is well known that the Communist governments in Eastern Europe were unable to provide a living standard equal to that of the West to their people. This idea is often regarded by historians as an important underlying cause of communism's popular unrest in the late 1980's.
The environment had universally bad consequences for the economies of Communist Eastern Europe. Such policies paid little or no heed to the effects on the world of industrial production before the mid-1980s. The result was an almost unprecedented amount of industrial pollution and environmental degradation today.