A left-wing party with communist roots now controls the levers of government in the German state of Thuringia, marking the first time a political party closely linked to East Germany’s communist leadership has gained power since German reunification in 1990.
The party is, appropriately enough, the Left Party,reports The Telegraph.
This week, the state parliament in Thuringia narrowly voted to authorize a new coalition with the Left Party at the helm. The three-way coalition also includes the Green Party.
The Left Party is viewed as the successor to the Socialist Unity Party which controlled East Germany when it was a dictatorship and a satellite of the Soviet Union.
Many of the Left Party’s current leaders grew up in East Germany. Critics charge that some of them were involved with the Stasi, East Germany’s brutal secret police.
“Many who were in prison in the GDR [East Germany] are very upset,” the director of the Stasi memorial in Berlin, Hubertus Knabe, said, according to The Telegraph. “They feel that the lessons of history have been forgotten.”
http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/06/what-could-go-wrong-communists-return-to-power-in-east-german-state/
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