German elections return a centre-right government

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

A whole lot of Germany can be traced back to dictatorial times. To however dismiss everything originating or supported by previous dictatorships would be a dead-end street. Die Linke may draw heavily on Ostalgia, and have an altogether too large communist influence, but it also enjoys support from a democratic leftist electorate.

It isn't quite the same though. It isn't that they just draw on Ostalgia and the East German state, it is that they are the successor party to the SED. It would be like the Nazi Party renaming itself, and gaining some influence from relatively "normal" people on the same side of the political spectrum years later.

Aemilius Paulus, my post was not so hostile to you as it might have seemed when you first read it. I'd recommend reading it again before taking that tone.