>>512752427
My first thought was "is this because these cities are where European heavy industries are based?" And the answer is yes. They use coal fired plants to power shit like coking plants and steel mills in these areas, which is why the air is more polluted there. If you actually still had these sorts of industries in Germany rather than moving your operations to Poland/buying from them, you would probably have cities that also have high pollution. I can't even imagine how Europeans, and especially the Germans left over from the war, wake up and just seethe about literally anything any other European does, constantly. It's like you're not even people, you're copy pasted rpg npcs with 2 lines of speech.