Last week....a member of the CDU Party from eastern Germany (Wanderwitz) stood up and did a interview....to say that folks in the eastern side of Germany have a bigger tendency to lean or vote for right-wing extremist parties than folk in the western part of Germany.
His reasoning? He kinda believed that after 45 years of a dictatorship (DDR-wise)....the 30-odd years of democracy (provided by FRG).....just hadn't moved much of anything.
I paused over the description and period since 1990.
After 9 November 1989....the Wall was basically gone, and the fall/collapse of the East German government came underway.
For those who'd grown up in the old system....remembering how it was at least in the 1950s....they probably drifted back into the system without much effort. Those who were born after the 1950s....were true DDR-members, and most probably question a great deal of 'democracy' and identify some parts of the Merkel policy as being similar to old DDR rules.
Public TV in Germany (ARD/ZDF) often gets labeled as instruments of propaganda by this same crowd.
Wanderwitz's comments? Maybe he's right that influence still exists 35-odd years later. But when does this belief finally end? Second generation? Third generation?
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