• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t realize politics in Germany was polarised to such an extent that you break ties with people in Thuringen and Erzgebirge. Do you know what’s causing such polarization over there?

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      The generational reckoning and by proxy the reckoning with authority figures of the 60s didn’t happen in east Germany, leading to a completely different socialisation of whole generations.

      The differences are subtle, but can be observed in many aspects of everyday life.

      Add to that a lack of interaction with foreigners (thereby increasing xenophobia) because none of those want to go there in the first place and you get a self reinforcing circle.

    • Ooops :malkavian:@ruhr.social
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      Not OP but:

      It’s not about what’s causing this but what caused this… a long time ago:

      Decades of brain-washing left them brain-damaged with a hatred for everything “left” (as in USSR-style left) but totally susceptible to any form of propaganda and populism.

      Russians becoming nazis, Eastern Europeans being either pro-Russian (USSR-nostalgic) relics or crazy nationalists and supporting every right-wing populist and Ex-GDR citizens cheering for the AfD. It’s all the same damage.