• @FleetingTit@feddit.org
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      224 days ago

      Unfortunately Die Linke is traditionally close to Russia. They are also the predecessor of the PDS which is basically a continuation of the SED, the singular government party of the former German Democratic Republic (east germany).

      • Pete Hahnloser
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        223 days ago

        The former GDR is where AfD sprang from. That it’s now spreading is not great news. I can’t imagine anyone in Hameln wanting a return to that (the rest of Niedersachen, less so), but I’ve not lived there in 30 years, so I don’t exactly have my finger on the pulse of German politics.

        • Pete Hahnloser
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          123 days ago

          There’s a reason I capped “Alternative” – we likely don’t pronounce it the same.