Tense political backdrop
According to many analysts, fascism was never defeated, it was only temporarily retreated. Putin’s Russia has a cult of the dead built around World War II. In other countries, trivial trends are being born. Far right parties are on an unprecedented rise. The defeat of fascism, which was inflicted on the fronts of the Second World War, seems only to have postponed confronting that legacy for today.
Today, Germany has new elections and the eyes of all Europe are riveted on it. Will it deliver the big surprise, we wonder? And all eyes are fixed on the cold German zeitgeist: war, energy crisis, inflation, migration, disagreement with Europe’s economic policies, disagreement with domestic policies.
From the short but contested election campaign, one thing became clear: the left is dead, long live the right.
