Angela
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This is obviously an English view of German history and politics. Is it accurate? I hope not.
See:
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ed-in-its-eastern-stronghold?CMP=share_btn_tw
I think it almost seems to say, in parts, that the problem with East Germans is that they're more "eastern", or "Slavic" than other Germans, which is a dangerous trajectory in its own right.*
I can see where the violent demonstrations are very discomfiting, however. They're not the only ones who had a flashback to Brown Shirt violence on the streets of the Germany of the Weimar Republic.
Ed. * I don't believe in trashing a whole part of Europe in this way, and, after all, the heart of Nazism in Germany was in Bavaria.
See:
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ed-in-its-eastern-stronghold?CMP=share_btn_tw
I think it almost seems to say, in parts, that the problem with East Germans is that they're more "eastern", or "Slavic" than other Germans, which is a dangerous trajectory in its own right.*
I can see where the violent demonstrations are very discomfiting, however. They're not the only ones who had a flashback to Brown Shirt violence on the streets of the Germany of the Weimar Republic.
Ed. * I don't believe in trashing a whole part of Europe in this way, and, after all, the heart of Nazism in Germany was in Bavaria.