Ja wohl!: PDS= Party of Democratic Socialism, successor to old East German ruling party.
SPD= Social Democrats: Germany's (nominal) left of center party.
GDR= Old East Germany (German Democratic Republic)
----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:05:15 -0500 (CDT) From: jf noonan <jfn1 at msc.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: Willy Brandt In-Reply-To: <Pine.PMDF.3.95.980616153157.538983757B-100000 at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> Sender: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dennis R Redmond wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, / dave / crossposted from the Times of London:
>
> > WILLY BRANDT, the former West German
> > Chancellor, architect of Ostpolitik and
> > symbol of the country's Left, was also a
> > Soviet KGB agent, according to information
> > provided by a Russian defector.
>
> To those of who who aren't acquainted with the German political scene, one
> brief note: twenty million citizens of the country live in the former GDR,
> so any hint that Brandt was sympathetic to the East will win the SPD
> far more votes there than they would ever lose in placid, social
> democratic, post-Cold War West Germany. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I
> suspect this whole thing is a plant by the SPD elections squad to wean
> voters away from the PDS.
>
> -- Dennis
For those not aquainted with the German political scene and/or don't read German, please expand the acronyms above.
Thx,
-j
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Joseph Noonan jfn1 at msc.com k