Posted on 12/08/2014 12:58:07 AM PST by wetphoenix
A left-wing party with communist roots now controls the levers of government in the German state of Thuringia, marking the first time a political party closely linked to East Germany’s communist leadership has gained power since German reunification in 1990.
The party is, appropriately enough, the Left Party, reports The Telegraph.
This week, the state parliament in Thuringia narrowly voted to authorize a new coalition with the Left Party at the helm. The three-way coalition also includes the Green Party.
The Left Party is viewed as the successor to the Socialist Unity Party which controlled East Germany when it was a dictatorship and a satellite of the Soviet Union.
Many of the Left Party’s current leaders grew up in East Germany. Critics charge that some of them were involved with the Stasi, East Germany’s brutal secret police.
“Many who were in prison in the GDR [East Germany] are very upset,” the director of the Stasi memorial in Berlin, Hubertus Knabe, said, according to The Telegraph. “They feel that the lessons of history have been forgotten.”
In his first speech to the new parliament, Thuringia’s new Left Party prime minister, Bodo Ramelow, apologized to people who suffered — or worse — under the yoke of East German communism. He also expressed his desire to “reconcile rather than divide.”
In Erfurt on Thursday, thousands of protesters took to the streets to protest the Left Party’s control of state government.
Both German Chancellor Angela Merkel, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, a moderate political party, and German President Joachim Gauck, a political independent, criticized the Left Party’s leadership in Thuringia. Merkel called it “bad news.”
Thuringia, located in central Germany, has some 2.3
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surely they have a few communities in need of organizing...
Clowns to left of me Jokers to the right Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
>> The Left Party is viewed as the successor to the Socialist Unity Party
Lest not one forget the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
Ping.. “Many who were in prison in the GDR [East Germany] are very upset,”— the old ‘DDR’, in German, is back & influential? I think not!
Schweinerei! ;)
The Left Party is viewed as the successor to the Socialist Unity Party which controlled East Germany when it was a dictatorship and a satellite of the Soviet Union.It isn’t just “viewed” as that—it is that very party. In fact, they have fought in court to establish that fact, because it meant that they could keep the enormous assets of the old, East German communist party. Real estate, buildings, bank accounts in Switzerland, everything.
These are evil communists. And now they are governing that state together with the Green Party (not surprising. It is basically Maoist), and the SPD, the social democratic party. Now that really is remarkable! Remember that after the war, the communists did not close Hitler’s concentration camps but kept them running. The communists used to hate social democrats and sent many of them right back to the very same camps. The old generation of social democrats still remembers this and would never cooperate with this communist scum. But the younger generation does not, and to get some power, they will happily cooperate with the communists now.
Oh well; the people of Thuringia voted for this. So let them enjoy their new Soviet republic now.
“What Could Go Wrong? Communists Return To Power In East German State”
Big deal! Just look at the commies in the white house. Look at the demonstrations “hands up” going on all over the country by commie sympathizers and dumb kids.
...and the dog returns to his vomit
Sounds like they have the same problem we have here.
A generation of voters who were not alive during the Cold War and thus have no concept of the dangers of Communism.
When islamists come to power in Europe, atheistic communists will be among the first to lose their heads.
I’d say a generation of people who never experienced communism first hand, with parents who were losers of new free market system and grandparents who actually lived under communism but like most old people tends to romanticize the times of their youth, remember mostly good things from the past and telling fairy tales of that to that new generation.
I actually can see this ugly phenomenon in Russia too.
Leftist rallies aren’t attracting near as many people as in Germany and there is little chance for commies to win a majority in state legislatures yet but influx of young people in their ranks is clearly visible.
I can expect commies to become a viable power in case if economy would continue to worsen.
~When islamists come to power in Europe, atheistic communists will be among the first to lose their heads.~
I don’t actually think islamists stand any chances in a real contest with true communists. Pinkos doesn’t count of course.
I beg to differ. communism is atheistically based. islam, despite what we may think of it, is not. As islam rises, commies won’t have a chance. Rallying to a deity is much more effective than re-working some dead German guy’s political thesis.
I can find numerous examples of socialists who obliterated Islamic regimes and had put end to traditionalist Islamic societies in years, not generations.
Opposite conversion is extremely rare and it requires help to islamists from abroad all time.
Hail, hail East Germany
Land of fruit and grape
Land where you’ll regret
If you try to escape
No matter if you tunnel under or take a running jump at the wall
Forget it, the guards will kill you, if the electrified fence doesn’t first.
“...and the dog returns to his vomit”
My exact thoughts when I read the article. There’s no hope for voters like that, if the communist experience didn’t wise them up then nothing will. Sadly, one-half of the American electorate probably aren’t any better.
Do you know of any community organizer you would like to send them?
Refresh my memory.
Thanks.
Closing all the German nuke plants did not do their economy any good; just like us closing our coal plants and instituting the largest tax hike in history during the Great Recession: obamacare.
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