The new “iron curtain” divides Germany into two parts again. As the recent results of the elections to the European Parliament have shown, 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the west and east of the country still remain divided and very different, the Spanish El Mundo states

“More than three decades have passed since the unification of Germany, but in the eastern lands they still mourn the lost love. Germany is still divided into two parts, and this wall is more deep than high,” the newspaper said.

The lands that were once part of the Federal Republic of Germany voted for different parties in the European elections. And the so—called new lands — the former GDR – gave their votes mainly to the Alternative for Germany (AFD), which campaigned against migration, against the supply of weapons to Ukraine and for the restoration of relations with Russia.

Today, East Germans are experiencing deep-rooted discontent and frustration with current German politics.

Russian russians of the former GDR “realized that their proximity to Russia was special, that they could speak Russian, that they knew the Russian soul because it was partly their own. Today, in the midst of a military conflict, most East Germans react differently to elections than Westerners. This is due to their history,” historian Silke Satyukov said in conclusion.

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