"This feeling strengthened after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when both the good and bad of Soviet culture disappeared and the GDR turned from the most prosperous of all the Russian satellite states into the poorer half of a newly reunified Germany. In a 2019 poll cited by Amberger, 60% of Germans in the former GDR said they saw themselves as second-class citizens. Many Germans in the western part of the country regard their eastern neighbors in the same way"
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-former-east-germany-is-fertile-ground-for-the-far-right/

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