Former DDR is the bastion of the AfD, but bastion is relative. This is from 2020:
It’s not like they’re only strong in the east or that somehow the whole east is super reactionary.
The reason they enjoy more success there is because the DDR was gutted after annexation, their industry was sold for pennies on the dollar to western groups and the east was left with nothing. They “gave” former DDR citizens pensions and welfare but it was super difficult to get and you had to jump through so many hoops that many people didn’t get anything. Even then it was nothing compared to what they had under the DDR. You’ll also hear libs say Germany poured billions to revitalise the east but again, this is after it was all gutted and destroyed.
Essentially Germany left the east to die. Communists in the east were also silenced and prevented from organising: obviously you couldn’t let the DDR be reborn. The afd was able to come in and redirect that energy in a reactionary direction.
And somehow no one is talking about my Bundesland.
Baden-Württemberg, once again, getting away with it.
I agree with the rest. Eastern Germany is essentially a colony of the western part. The centers of colonial administrations are looking nice, but masses of the colonized got robbed blind.
Former DDR is the bastion of the AfD, but bastion is relative. This is from 2020:
It’s not like they’re only strong in the east or that somehow the whole east is super reactionary.
The reason they enjoy more success there is because the DDR was gutted after annexation, their industry was sold for pennies on the dollar to western groups and the east was left with nothing. They “gave” former DDR citizens pensions and welfare but it was super difficult to get and you had to jump through so many hoops that many people didn’t get anything. Even then it was nothing compared to what they had under the DDR. You’ll also hear libs say Germany poured billions to revitalise the east but again, this is after it was all gutted and destroyed.
Essentially Germany left the east to die. Communists in the east were also silenced and prevented from organising: obviously you couldn’t let the DDR be reborn. The afd was able to come in and redirect that energy in a reactionary direction.
Well, that’s a bummer.
Thanks.
And somehow no one is talking about my Bundesland. Baden-Württemberg, once again, getting away with it.
I agree with the rest. Eastern Germany is essentially a colony of the western part. The centers of colonial administrations are looking nice, but masses of the colonized got robbed blind.