Germany’s politics are a lot more complicated than two colors on a map, but its worth pointing out that the opposition in Germany is also opposed to the Euro and the European Union framework.
Yep, I’ve been there and they seems like missing a Soviet jackboot much. Even a soccer teams in East Germany are still featuring standardized Russian names and symbolics. All they are talking about are ‘rich capitalists’ from the west who ‘stolen a country’ from them. People in their 40s looks like a few sane persons. Old folks are all-communist and the younger, surprisingly, are pretty intensively red too.
The “Wall of the Mind” still very much exists in Germany.