For years, centrist politicians in Germany shunned the far-left Left Party for its rumored connections to East Germany’s communist past. Now, just months after the SPD began rethinking that position, numerous Left Party parliamentarians in Brandenburg have been exposed as former Stasi informants.It was supposed to be the beginning of a new era for Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD). Following state elections in Brandenburg, held concurrently with the Sept. 27 general elections in Germany, SPD Governor Matthias Platzeck entered into a governing coalition with the far-left Left Party. Such an alliance has long governed the city-state of Berlin. But following the SPD’s election-day debacle — a miserable result of just 23 percent of the vote — the party saw fit to begin opening itself up to the left elsewhere as well.
The experiment, as recent events indicate, has been a disaster. On Wednesday, it was revealed that Michael Luthardt, a member of Brandenburg’s state parliament, was an informant for the East German secret police, the Stasi. Even worse, his was the seventh such case unveiled since the election.
“What’s happening at the moment is extremely painful,” Platzeck said this week. He intends to go before the Brandenburg parliament on Friday to address the issue.
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I have told everybody I know since 1990 that there should have been a ”denazification” program to eradicate all communist spies,agents,fellow travellers and others that worked with Soviet and other commie organisations in all western countries.
Nobody who directly or indirectly tied to any past commie regime should EVER be allowed to have a position of authority in any western country.