Anti-war parties are set to clean up in eastern German elections

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"But the Ukraine war has come to stand for something else in parts of the east, says Jan Claas Behrends, a history professor at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt on the Oder. He sees scepticism towards Ukraine as a legacy of East German “peace propaganda” blended with stick-it-to-the-elites defiance and anti-Americanism. Such claims do not necessarily trouble the insurgents. “If people in the east who share our views are told that everyone who thinks like that is a Kremlin asset, they recall propaganda they heard in the gdr,” says Fabio de Masi, a BSW Mep

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