Posted on 11/04/2014 7:07:13 AM PST by Olog-hai
Germany has moved closer to getting its first state governor from a party with communist roots as the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall approaches.
Germany’s main center-left party, the Social Democrats, said Tuesday a party ballot in eastern Thuringia state showed 70 percent favoring negotiations to join a regional government led by Left Party candidate Bodo Ramelow. […]
Ramelow himself wasn’t a communist, but his party is descended partly from East Germany’s communist rulers. …
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Just as over year, younger voters come to the age of majority being utterly clueless about the hard-fought lessons of the past.
Is there still “Ostalgie”, nostalgia for the old DDR in Germany? One way to put a damper on that is the movie Das Leben die Anderen. Life under the constant eye of the Stasi.
Sadly, the social marketeers who are the “mainstream” don’t give them much of a choice, and propagandize non-stop against the evil free market and free society.
Well, we had Obama....just sayin’.
At least this fellow Bobo isn’t set to become Kanzler or Präsident.
Unless those Osti's were the Stasi. Remember the shock following the collapse of the DDR when the full pervasiveness of the spying was revealed. Everybody was spying on everyone else, so no trials.
As an aside, one of the most despicable pieces of tele-journalism was Wolf Blitzer's fawning walk and talk with Markus Wolf. Blitzer treated him as some misunderstood elder statesman not the monster he was. Markus Wolf played him like a fiddle.
Have they had any governors from the green party, because then the only difference would be old versus new.
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