[Whenifhow]

Full Title: Merkel, the Red footsoldier: German chancellor under fire over Communist links as image of her in uniform is released

[Whenifhow]

Website of interest

http://www.globalmuseumoncommunism.org/

[OKSooner]

Cue up the music:

Deutchsland, Deutchsland, uber alles...

[Viennacon]

Anyone surprised?

[Frank_2001]

Time has not been kind to her....

[Straight Vermonter]

[Liberty Valance]

Ha!

[A'elian' nation]

So the German press prints a photo of Merkel when she was young and under Stasi rule; meanwhile there is not one book written in German that is critical of OweBowMao.

If there is I would love to find it and send it to my deluded German relatives over there.

[BfloGuy]

For Pete's sake, she grew up under Communism. Let's condemn a teenager because she did what teens do and joined a group. Probably because she was forced to.

This stuff really pi**es me off.

[cunning_fish]

Everyone did it in combloc. So what?

[Gay State Conservative]

My understanding of East Germany (as incomplete as it may be) suggests that,particularly at 17,*not* going along with everything you saw on TV and in newspapers,heard on radio,and was taught in school could actually have been dangerous.I have a much bigger problem with the guy in charge of the EU...Manuel Barosso.In the 70’s,while in college he was an open and vocal MAOIST and today his actions and attitudes clearly indicate that he's *still* a Maoist.

[Fred Nerks]

And your local hero whose fingerprints were found in the townhouse where the home made bombs full of nails were made and accidently detonated killing his girlfriend and a couple of other members of the weather underground terrorists who planned to bomb a social event nearby, he’s now an illustrious professor.

People in glass houses.