Holy Cr@p! That's some crazy sh*t. It's literally the old cold war east & west Germany map - down to the e-w carving of Berlin. Granted its almost 50yrs since the wall came down, yet seems like the legacy of the era under communism fostered the seeds for fascism? - ThreadSky

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teej-m.bsky.social • 8 hours ago

Holy Cr@p! That's some crazy sh*t. It's literally the old cold war east & west Germany map - down to the e-w carving of Berlin.

Granted its almost 50yrs since the wall came down, yet seems like the legacy of the era under communism fostered the seeds for fascism?

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dominix.bsky.social•8 hours ago

This was a really insidious regime, when it came to maintaining control-no other Warsaw Pact country came close in the number of people recruited as secret police informers. Western Germany thought that just economic integration would be enough to heal this, but they may have been wrong.

teej-m.bsky.social•8 hours ago

If you don't mind me asking. Is AfD an island there? Meaning, does their support spill over into Poland & Czechia?

dominix.bsky.social•8 hours ago

It’s complicated: there are parties like them and there are populist-right parties that are nothing like them (one ruled Poland for 8 years until 2023). AfD is pro Russia, and it’s a really hard (extremely in fact) sell in Poland and Czechia, but they can still win in Slovakia for example.

teej-m.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Thanks for the insight. Makes sense that the iron curtain countries closer to Russia know the risk of a puppet government being allowed to take root...ala Lukashenko in Belarus.

dominix.bsky.social•7 hours ago

He was not always a puppet-for a very long time. It’s just when you and your cronies are utterly corrupt, it’s not in your interest to join EU, where there are strict rules about state contracts. That said those guardrails fall off, once country joins, hence people like Orban come out.

teej-m.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Educational, thanks again. It was the protests after Lukashenko's 'election' that I assumed it was Putinesque electioneering.

The joke many heard here during those protests was:
Person being arrested: "but I voted for Lukashenko!"
Police: "You lie! Nobody voted for Lukashenko"

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