> And it's not just in programming-related jobs either. Parts of industry and the blue collar market are shitting themselves in Germany right now.

> Politicians are still complaining about Fachkräftemangel,

These two things can be, and in fact are right now true at the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_unemployment

Everyone coming from an ex-Warsaw-Pact country most probably already lived through that before. We've entered the market economy (and stopped the play-pretend) with huge unemployment and lack of skilled workers at the same time.