Germany
Fascists align with conservatives to kick out Die Linke in eastern Germany
February 6, 2020Pro-business conservative steals presidency from the Left Party with support of the neo-Nazi-linked Alternative for Germany (AfD).
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The bombs of the last war and preparations for the next rattle Germany
January 17, 202075 years after WWII, the happy handshakes and yearnings of that momentous springtime of 1945 seem fully forgotten, erased.
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In Berlin and Erfurt, two murals belong to the people
January 6, 2020You see the fighter plane and the armed soldiers marauding through the village, masked villagers trying to protect it, panicked mothers and children - and the corpses.
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Germany’s pyrrhic victory over the Berlin Wall
November 12, 2019In the end, the odds were against the GDR. But its defeat doesn't mean the system it was building, socialism, was proven false.
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Thoughts on the Berlin Wall 30 years after its demise
November 8, 2019East Germany was a lot more than the totalitarian prop that gets paraded out to prove the supposed superiority of capitalism over socialism.
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