But what a difference!  Then there was a powerful communist party, closely aligned with the interests and policies of the Soviet Union.  Now the party of protest is unambiguously the party of historical losers: in the East, of Germans who are nostalgic for the planned economy and society of state socialism; in the West, of critics of the SPD who lost a power struggle with Gerhard Schroeder.
Le seul point commun entre les résultats de l'entre-deux-guerres et ceux d’aujourd’hui semble être le renforcement de la gauche radicale en temps de crise économique. Mais quelle différence !