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Red Commissar
10th December 2010, 04:53
This was sent on the LeftistTrainspotters mailing list by a user who shared political adverts from three of leftist political groups on Germany on the 1990 German parliamentary elections (occuring after unification of East and West).

Every political group was entitled to a 120 second TV spot, so some took advantage of it and made one. So I hope you enjoy- while I couldn't understand a word of it, the appearances... well, you'll see.

The first video is from the "Spartakist-Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands", or the Spartacists Workers' Party of Germany and sometimes the Vanguard Workers' Party of Germany. They were a Trotskyist party, representing the German chapter of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), and the last evolution of a number of Trotskyist groupings in West Germany.
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The second is the "Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter" (Socialist Workers' Party). Another Trotskyist grouping that is currently the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party) affiliated with the ICFI.
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Last is from the PDS by Grygor Gysi, which later on merged with the WASG to make Die Linke.
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Enjoy the destruction of bourgeois fashion.

The uploader (http://www.youtube.com/user/fernsehschaetzchen) has more videos from that year, if you wish to see them.

Die Neue Zeit
12th December 2010, 06:06
Is there a German election advertisement by chancellor candidate Oskar Lafontaine? :D

Red Commissar
12th December 2010, 06:37
Is there a German election advertisement by chancellor candidate Oskar Lafontaine? :D

Yeah, there are four SPD adverts that features LaFontaine:

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The third video seems to be damaged, but regardless he was front and center here.

Ligeia
12th December 2010, 16:31
:ohmy: Those election advertisements even had some real content back then. Not just empty images and words.

Cheung Mo
15th December 2010, 20:53
Yes we can! :laugh:

Entdinglichung
26th January 2012, 11:57
from the lambertist electoral front Vereinigung der Arbeitskreise für Arbeitnehmerpolitik und Demokratie (VAA) critizising Lafontaine for being not nationalistic enough, today, they are deeply buried inside the SPD:

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