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decades ago but the recent national election here has put the far right alternative for germany party in the blunder start for the very first time and triggered talk of a return to those old east west divisions meanwhile europe wants united by the tearing down of the iron curtain is again putting up walls and fences a question on quadriga this week after the election divided germany divided europe and to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by wojciech she moans ski who is with the polish service of d w he believes it is a mixture of socio economic and cultural factors that pushes people towards far right populist parties both in eastern germany and in eastern europe also with us is judy dempsey senior fellow with the carnegie your of think tank also a blogger and author judy says there are all kinds of divisions through europe and

they're becoming deeper and more complex but compared to spain britain and poland germany still seems to have a city still seems to be even of stability and a warm welcome to to an you're right chief correspondent of the berlin site on newspaper and your says the west germans should stop looking down on the east germans unity means seeing the world through other people's eyes and questioning your own value. while india i'd like to begin with you and as we've just seen germany has been celebrating unity day this past week and the question is how united is germany or disunited is germany. well i think germany is still an away. not really united and. it hasn't really been different in all those years after the reunification it's just that all of a sudden it seems to come out like like we see it because there is this party f.t. and all of a sudden you see. most of the war voters. come from east germany and most of them

are man. should talk about that when you say it can't it just comes out it's suddenly there why is it there now. because you know people have the feeling that they like that they can speak out loud say maybe have thought for a long time their disappointment their anger about things that happened to them. in all those years after their unification so i guess a lot of people feel that i belong to that united germany to that germany that is very successful in the world. before i bring in wojciech and judy let's just listen to what germany's president. had to say there reunification celebrations earlier this week.

the great wall across our country is gone. that on september twenty fourth it became clear that there were other wallace less visible without barbed wire and death strips. that stand in the way of our common progress. i am referring to the walls of alienation disappointment or anger that have become some strong reason can no longer penetrate. and. judy dempsey have the walls of alienation disappointment and anger become so possible that argument can no longer penetrate those walls you know i think these walls. talks about they are there but we shouldn't seek to most prominent and these polls have been constructed in people's minds maybe sometimes in people's lives as well because the political narrative and the politicians

have become kind of stuck to fight and how they deal with politics and. this whole it's a nomination is really in some ways from the lack of communication and on the grassroots level on the local level on the on the political level but they also feel not so much that they left behind that they don't seem to have a stake in the society it's very very complex but just demonizing these people is even it is very very dangerous politics must become inclusive not exclusive we're clearly is a very important juncture here you're talking about politics having been stalled to fide and is talking about change sudden change that is beginning to take place. there was an article in the new york times the been carrying a piece that caught my eye they said germany germany and the germans has enjoyed a long holiday from history but it looks like the vacation is over what do you say

. smiling. well of course the forty years of division of germany they will not be forgotten in twenty five years after the fall of the. of the wall that's history we are talking about i believe here and. is and it may be too easy to make this a great bow to the history that we. in the thirty's or forty's. of course there is development in eastern germany and the fact that he had such a such it's such a great result it's i. think we have to talk about and ask why did why did this happen but if there is a. should somebody say this is the comeback of the nazi germany. that's too much if you say the whole of the holiday from history this connotation of you know times they never had a holiday from history history has been haunting the germans since the end of the

second round war and it's been there. right through to the present day what has changed is the is the the to boom this that to believe is now broken down and so it's not that history is being the visit it is that people of the f.t. particularly are now actually christening some of the symbols of that history and that's the dangerous aspect of that in some ways there's also a feeling that in some it depends on who you talked in the f.t. if you want to be released from this history but to be released from your past in your country's history is really not a solution and how to deal with the problems now that's some some germans do feel and you just tell us a little bit more about the year you have to go to eleven percent of the vote in western germany and almost twice that in eastern germany why the difference why do more people in eastern germany vote for the f.t. . i think you know that party could have had in another name i guess there is

not really a party where the east germans feel like they belong to that they would to now stand up for their interests you know the left wing party to link and. this is the former as they do socialist party here and they try to take over voters and. but still there is a little suspicion in the people to think ok this is my party and then there's a huge. not huge anymore but you know socialist party and a christian democratic party they're both really you know they used to be really big parties and they're also a little suspicious because that gets a lot of people are reminded of of the big socialist party and g.d.r. and and also you know they're very varied in their many reasons i guess was a feel. left out by those parties bank of america by shorts and i was if you.

are not the people who. who pride for us you know who understand who we are and what happened to us and and so on.