Why is the far-right AfD popular in areas that once made up the communist country of the German Democratic Republic? The ...

Formed in 2013, the AfD started out as a party that opposed Germany bailing out other countries, mainly Greece, during the ...

An astounding map that has emerged from Germany’s general election has shown just how divided the nation at the heart of ...

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the early euphoria of reunification, enduring economic inequalities ...

The Soviet Union controlled East Germany and implemented communism there and the West controlled West Germany and implemented ... US Vice President JD Vance had also backed AfD. In the map prepared by ...

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The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...

You only have to look at a map of Germany to see where much of its support comes from ... West Germany was a capitalist democracy with a prosperous economy, while East Germany was a communist country ...

The map looks like two entirely different countries ... Indeed, the AfD celebrates the east throwing off the shackles of Communism. And these days, the gap between western and eastern Germany is far ...

You only have to look at a map of Germany to see where much ... capitalist democracy with a prosperous economy, while East Germany was a communist country with a very poor economy.

“If you look up the electoral maps of the general election ... just at the legacy of the GDR and communism, but also the legacy of post-socialism in East Germany to understand why the AfD ...