The Umayyads shouldn’t have stopped at Septimania 😫

35 years of far-right organizing and widespread hate crimes that conservatives did fuck all against, along with capitalist shock therapy followed by mass depopulation of rural areas and in some places outright nazi settlement policy with fascists from western states moving in and buying up cheap properties.

The counter-revolution of 1989/1990, market reforms and associated recession and unemployment, Nazi gangs forming out of poor youths attacking leftists (“baseball bat years”), the Party for Democratic Socialism (SED successor, later known as the Left Party after merging with a left-SPD splinter group) getting into coalition governments with social democrats and supporting neoliberal policies leading to a loss of credibility, pro-Russian foreign policy sympathies that only the AfD openly supports, nationalism being seen as the answer to social problems and, of course, racism.

Brutalized by the west during reunification and persistently underdeveloped since

any kind of leftism being basically outlawed, communist leaders of being thrown in prisons for reasons such as: checks notes deploying tear gas against protesters, and the whole country basically being treated like a colony for the west ever since