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This chant brought down the Berlin Wall. Now the far right has stolen it [CNN Biased headline]
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Posted on 09/01/2019 10:11:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Grainy images of 70,000 protesters in Leipzig carrying candles and chanting "Wir sind das Volk" -- "We are the people!" -- were beamed across the world on October 9, 1989. The rally was a turning point in the fall of the Iron Curtain a month later.

Kühne was one of the demonstrators who, in his words, "longed for a free and united country." Then a 21-year-old locksmith working at the state railway company, he said the uprising in his hometown was "the greatest thing I've ever experienced."

Today he is again drawing inspiration from Germany's peaceful revolution -- this time, as a member of the country's far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party.

Kühne is a candidate in the upcoming Saxony state election on September 1, where the AfD is tipped to come in at second place, behind Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party.

Now the AfD is repackaging the 1989 Leipzig demonstrations for its 2019 political campaign -- resurrecting the same slogans, images and revolutionary rhetoric.

From billboards showing historic photographs of the protest, to posters emblazoned with the famous slogan: "We are the people!" the AfD is urging voters in the east to rise up, much as they did against communism three decades ago.

Today a man in his 50s and quick to make jokes about his weight, Kühne paints a picture of similiar activists-turned-AfD supporters who have been sidelined for too long.

"We were not asked" about replacing Germany's national currency with the euro, or Merkel's so-called open-door policy on refugees, he said. "But we are the people. And of course my party still uses this wonderful slogan from the peaceful revolution today."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Russia; United Kingdom
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1 posted on 09/01/2019 10:11:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I could chant that with a gun in my hand. Yeah. I could.


2 posted on 09/01/2019 10:30:43 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: BenLurkin

Anyone who stands up for liberty today will be labeled a “far right” nazi by the DNC-MSM media complex. What’s ominous is that the more the marxists do so, the more the true far right will look like the only alternative to combat PC lunacy.


3 posted on 09/01/2019 10:34:33 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: BenLurkin

The AfD did very well in these elections. Still there is a long way to go to actually getting into government or influencing government parties enough to actually turn around Germany’s suicidal immigration policies.


4 posted on 09/01/2019 10:46:05 PM PDT by Dagnabitt
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To: BenLurkin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ..
The will of the people is the DNC talking points -- populism (the actual will of the people) is just racism, nativism, nationalism, white supremacy...

Partisan Media Shills update.


5 posted on 09/01/2019 10:56:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

Communists are still butthurt by the downfall of the Soviet Union and East Germany.


6 posted on 09/02/2019 12:39:26 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Amberdawn

Last week American Communists were calling Bernie Sanders a MODERATE.


7 posted on 09/02/2019 12:40:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: BenLurkin

If the Communist News Network (aka CNN) had their way, the wall would still be there and the USSR would still be ruling eastern Europe.


8 posted on 09/02/2019 2:16:34 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: BenLurkin

9 posted on 09/02/2019 3:37:13 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: BenLurkin

I want the Vatican and every wealthy person around the world supporting illegal immigration to tear down _their_ wall around _their_ property.

If that is “far right extremism” then so be it.

“Tear down that wall.”


10 posted on 09/02/2019 3:38:12 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: BenLurkin

technically the chant in 1989 WAS right-wing. It was talking about a nationalism as opposed to communist class-ism


11 posted on 09/02/2019 4:04:43 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: BenLurkin

The left want to re-write history again. The bringing down of the wall was a conservative success and a triumph for individualism. They like to forget Ronald Reagan. And now seem to claim bringing down the wall was a leftist idea because they don’t l like borders and walls a t all


12 posted on 09/02/2019 4:33:22 AM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: BenLurkin
...Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party.

Yeah, right. Sure. "Center-right" my ever expanding gluteus maximus!

13 posted on 09/02/2019 5:18:13 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: BenLurkin

The CNN operatives of Pedophiles Against Trump are hard at it...


14 posted on 09/02/2019 5:49:26 AM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: BenLurkin

they don’t like you so they are replacing you with New People.


15 posted on 09/02/2019 6:21:09 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever.)
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To: BenLurkin
the right stole it??? the right invented it!

it was hardly the left that wanted the wall to come down being the good little socialists that they are...

16 posted on 09/02/2019 7:10:31 AM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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To: BenLurkin

Hey CNN Report this,
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/01/deep-state-lisa-page-peter-strzok-conducted-fbis-review-to-classify-comeys-memos/


17 posted on 09/02/2019 7:16:30 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: BenLurkin

The left’s chant is “We are the ELITES... so shut up and obey your MASTERS!”


18 posted on 09/02/2019 9:17:37 AM PDT by BEJ
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To: BenLurkin
The Berlin Wall was built to prevent the flight from socialism, not the flight to capitalism.


It's also a cultural misappropriation.

19 posted on 09/02/2019 8:12:42 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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