Bulgaricus “Look, Germany was de-nazified over 50 years ago. There are no statues of Himmler, Hitler et al, in Germany. But just look at post Communist nations. Statues of Commies everywhere & tons of unrepentant Communists in their governments. Yeah, I digress, but this is a huge problem & Germany sure doesn’t have it.”
I disagree. Germany is de-nazified but it has not gotten over its communist past. In east Germany there are still statues of Marx and streets named after him.
They even have the old communist party of east germany (SED “Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands” now named “Die Linke” ‘the left’ in english.) in their national parliament, and many federal state parliaments.
I hope for Germany that they somehow get rid of their socialist cancer.
Lucky for Germany, the left in germany is splitted into three partys of which Die Linke is the leftmost (together they have roughly one half of the vote, the other half have the two, more or less, conservative partys), and it is still an affront to the general public to work with Die Linke on a national level, or, in west germany, on a state level.
