Natasha Lindstaedt
@tashlindstaedt.bsky.social
Political science professor, UK based. My interests are authoritarian regimes, autocratization, cooking and bad reality tv.
The most striking result from yesterday’s German election #btw2025 🇩🇪: 🔹 35 years after reunification: The GDR is redrawn on this map. 🔹 The AfD won 45 out of 48 electoral districts in the East. 🔹 In some parts of Saxony, they came close to 50%! Why is this happening? Here’s my take 👇
35 years after reunification and still many differences between East and West Germans persist - from tennis courts, childcare, voting, wages, and Olympic medals.
ian bremmer@ianbremmer.com · last yr.a (very timely) reminder of the legacy of germany’s partition:
