>>16183Correct. There were those who were openly controlled by the Soviet Union, there were those who just took the East German's money / training / logistical support, but who, of course, were not pro-soviet at all, no sir! They didn't like the 'party shit', you know!
The West German leftist / alternative scene was ripe with east German influencer agents and informers. They were not in ideological alignment with marxism-leninism, but they were still useful idiots. They had their talking points supplied by the communists, and of course, the communists supplied talking points the western leftists would willingly repeat. For example, they shared grossly exaggerated takes on nuclear winter, to weaken Western resolve.
Ideological subversion was the KGBs main task back then. It is the FSBs main task now. Some of the tales are even re-used in slightly modified form. There was Soviet propaganda that claimed HIV has been produced by the Americans in bio-weapon labs. Search for "operation denver". Compare to the fanciful stories about bio-weapon labs in Ukraine we heard in 2022.
> the process of subversion is such a long-term process that an average individual, due to the short time-span of his historical memory, is unable to perceive the process of subversion as a CONSISTENT and willful effort>>16180>>16181AfD polls as second-strongest or strongest party with first-time voters in most German states. AfD might as well be called 'official Putin-Party of Germany'.
This eerily parallels history. In the seventies, young voters mostly voted for Brandt, who was the eastern block's preferred candidate.
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