• absquatulate@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    It looks dramatic, but afaik the old GDR states have much lower pop and density. Unless germany starts some funny business with electors and whatnot, i daresay this is not that bad of a result.

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      3 hours ago

      It is so striking where AfD is popular thought.

      A long time ago I visited one of my parents’ friends in East Germany with them, and I said something about how it was good that Germany reunified after the wall fell.

      My parent’s friend said, people here don’t think it was a good thing. People here felt like they lost the war.

      I never realized that was a thing.

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        31 minutes ago

        Interesting, indeed. Maybe it’s a form of nostalgia? We still have plenty of people missing the comunists in my country, usually folk that had it better during the regime. But I never heard “we felt like we lost the war”.