Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

Re:Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany by gmerc on Sunday July 02, 2023 @08:22AM (#36560801)

Please you are whitewashing history. Hoyerswerda gruesst. This shit was happening already in the 90s right after reunification and in the context of OP - it’s not surprising at all, eastern germany had a very different take on denazificaiton.

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Re:Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany by hutzlibu on Sunday July 02, 2023 @08:40AM (#36560932)

"eastern germany had a very different take on denazificaiton."

As opposed to the BRD, where for example the "Auswärtiges Amt" had more ex NSDAP party members after 1945 than before?

There definitely was denazification in the east, but the totalitarian enclosed and literally walled of mindset did not help with creating an open mind towards the world. Add to that high unemployment and poverty after 1990 and you get the usual extremists on both sides of the spectrum.

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Re:Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany by gmerc on Sunday July 02, 2023 @09:15AM (#36561206)

You will notice I did not say Western Germany was great at it. Different.

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Re:Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany by hutzlibu on Sunday July 02, 2023 @09:18AM (#36561228)

I noticed, but in the context it seems to imply a worse take.

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Re:Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany by nbryc on Sunday July 02, 2023 @08:33AM (#36560869)

Hoyerswerda was in 1991, please look at the election results:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_German_federal_election

No radical party was of any significance. If they were all Nazis, why didn't the NPD have 20%?

You are the one who rewrites history.

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Re:Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany by gmerc on Sunday July 02, 2023 @09:16AM (#36561212)

Because at the time that SED follow up was still binding the Nazi vote.

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Re:Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany by lkadv on Monday July 03, 2023 @04:46AM (#36570392)

And it bound the "Nazi vote" from 1990 until 2015? And they still don't vote NPD in 2023?

They vote AfD because the traditional parties have failed them and keep doubling down. The AfD would probably also fail them if in power, but that is the nature of protest votes.

Same story in France where Le Pen is currently leading the polls.

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