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Stereotypes about East Germany

GERMANY: The merger of West and East Germany took place on the former's terms. But the problem with Oschmann's book on this lies in the tension between the rhetorical and the socio-economic perspective: What is rhetoric, and what are facts?
Eivind Tjønneland -

Pep talk for Ossis

EAST GERMANY: Wellmer's observation that the war in Ukraine has triggered a new distance or 'Entfremdung' between East and West Germany is apt. Criticism of Putin is experienced today by East Germans as an attack on their East German identity. The West is now wronging Russia in the same way that West Germany dominated the East after the fall of the Wall.
Eivind Tjønneland -

Able to speak the truth in the midst of the stiffest headwinds

GERMANY: Sahra Wagenknecht gives many Germans – her former 'compatriots' in East Germany – an opportunity to be heard by a party. Wagenknecht's peacekeeping efforts could prevent an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine towards a major European war. Here in connection with the election in September.
Lars Thor Smith -

The land of broken hearts

Germany: With the social democrat Olaf Scholz in the driver's seat, according to Brekke's new book, it may seem as if the "Merkelian" leadership style has taken hold. She also believes that Germany's interest in Norway is especially great right now.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

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