The CDU in East Germany was in bed with the commies until Honecker was deposed.
Merkel was spokesman for the “Democratic Awakening” party (which ties in nicely with her agitprop history) before it merged into the CDU prior to reunification.
I remember reading somewhere that Merkel’s father was an interesting chap a pastor from East Germany, who would surely have come under the steely gaze of the Stasi, and yet who was able to travel back and forth across the border between East and West Germany with ease.
His childless daughter, fifty years later is now chancellor of a united Germany, and ostensibly a conservative.
Someone suggested that she may indeed be the greatest communist sleeper ever sent into the west, still programmed to carry on the DDR’s plans long after the regime had ceased to exist.
Crazy, until you look at Merkel’s recent behaviour as she throws the doors of fortress Europe open to the invading hordes.