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Social devastation and anti-immigrant demagoguery

Is it possible to understand the outcome of the elections without looking at the social reality in eastern Germany? After the people and the workers imposed German reunification in 1989, the “holy alliance” of Helmut Kohl’s government (CDU) with the “socialist’ leaders” of the SPD and the former bureaucrats of the East, converted to the “market economy”, went on a rampage against social achievements. The body set up to privatise, the Treuhand, wreaked havoc. The small town of Sömmerda in Thuringia, for example, had a population of 25,000 at the time (less than 20,000 today). The Robotron factory (electronic components) employed 15,000 workers, and all the town’s social institutions were linked to it, from kindergartens to swimming pools to the Palace of Culture. The workers considered all this to be their “second salary”, convinced that the company belonged to them. In June 1990, everything was destroyed by the Treuhand. Thrown out of a job, some of the workers had to accept temporary works work and underpaid odd jobs, while many young people left the region. Even today, in the Länder of Saxony and Thuringia, the employers have benefited from derogations from collective bargaining agreements. In Saxony, only 17% of companies [...]

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