Posted on 10/22/2017 2:56:56 AM PDT by davikkm
Cottbus (Germany) (AFP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel hails from Germany’s ex-communist East, yet it is here where the anger against her runs deepest and the far-right protest party AfD has celebrated its strongest gains.
The electoral success of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, which scored 12.6 percent in September 24 elections, stunned much of the country.
But in Cottbus, located in the Lusatia coal mining region near the Polish border, many cheered the strong result for the party whose battle cry is “Merkel must go”.
In the city of 100,000 people that is dominated by drab Soviet-style tower blocks, the AfD even beat the chancellor’s conservatives, more than doubling its national result by attracting 26.8 percent of the vote.
The list of grievances against Merkel is long if you listen to Klaus Gross, 67, a former army officer of the Soviet-allied regime who became a sales representative after Germany’s 1990 reunification.
“First we had the policy of rescuing the euro, then renewable energy with all these wind turbines everywhere,” he said, pointing to a green energy push that unsettles many in a region dependent on massive open-pit coal mines.
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she understands George Soros money period
Merkel graduated from the University of Karl Marx. Now renamed Leipzig.
Cottbus known for being the Wendts (Sorbic) homeland
Merkel’s globalism meets re-unified Germany’s nativism.
It is only a matter of time.
“AuF, JA!
The Berlin Wall coming down and allowing all the commies to merge with west Germany was a disaster
Until you have lived under Socialism/Communism, you cannot realize how total Government control affects your life. Merkel buys into it because she has the power, but the masses, having tasted some amounts of freedom, aren’t buying anymore. I hope ALL countries awaken and throw off the shackles of Socialism/Communism. Brexit was a good start, but Britain seems to be faltering in the ‘Leave negotiations’. The EU is very powerful and the former Eastern Bloc nations will (hopefully) lead an exodus from the Globalist EU. Prayers that other nations wake up and realize that each country has it’s own culture and (some have) different language(s) and that is a GOOD THING.
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