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Two maps of Germany. 04:07 - Feb 25 with 943 views

Mercian

1: Before reunification.

2: Election map 35 years later.

The UFD's seats in the Reichstag are exclusively from the former East Germany.

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Two maps of Germany. on 07:24 - Feb 25 with 800 views

Plums

That's an interesting outcome but when populists are appealing to those who are socially and economically deprived, it's not a huge surprise. I've just finished reading Beyond the Wall by Katya Hoyer and it's very clear that socially, the former GDR had a lot going for it socially e.g. the highest rate of female employment in the world. A reunified Germany was always going to fall short for many of those people. Let's hope their new government is able to counter both the deficit and the narative.

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Two maps of Germany. on 07:37 - Feb 25 with 766 views

Zx1988

Germany divided (again) by Zx1988 24 Feb 21:05
Looking over the results from yesterday's Bundestag election, I came across this rather striking map, illustrating which party won the party vote in each constituency:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/1600/cpsprodpb/a3f5/live/2c6e46a0-f2bd-11ef-896e-d7e7fb1719a4.png

All but two of the AFD's party vote wins came in the former east, with the only holdouts east of the old inner-German border being in Leipzig South, and the majority of former East Berlin, all of whom voted for Die Linke, and Potsdam who went CDU.

The two Western wins were in Gelsenkirchen and Kaiserslautern, both of which are experiencing the after-effects of post-industrial decline.

It all makes for rather interesting interpretation and analysis, especially with the former East having lurched from the Far Left to the Far Right in a little over thirty years.

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Two maps of Germany. on 09:43 - Feb 25 with 657 views

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I remember having a conversation with an East German chap back in 1990 (pre-reunification). He predicted exactly what has transpired. The economic imbalance between East and West has proven too difficult to overcome, leaving a social dislocation in its wake.

As in a number of former communist European nations, the unsatisfying hollowess of the promise of capitalism has not compensated for the lost certainties of the former system. People can thrive, but only some. Many no longer even have the safety net of such things as a guaranteed job (of some sort). The repressive authoritarianism fades in the memory. Ripe soil for populist agitators.

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