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SXSW: Historian Peter Keup unearths the traumas of his past to reveal the nefarious actions of the secret police and the ...

The mainstream parties that have long dominated politics in the West, like the SPD and CDU, are less deeply rooted in the former East Germany due to its communist past. This leaves the playing field ...

The party has always been more popular in German areas that were once under Soviet rule ... with a prosperous economy, while East Germany was a communist country with a very poor economy.

and the East under the purview of the Soviet Union. From 1950 to 1990, East Germany and its people were controlled by the Ministry of State Security, or Stasi, which resembled how the KGB operated ...