Tens of thousands of Germans braved the elements to attend the Uprising for Peace, a massive rally organized by Die Linke (Left Party) politician Sahra Wagenknecht and author Alice Schwarzer on Saturday.
The demonstrators massed at the Brandenburg Gate, calling for peace talks to end the conflict in Ukraine and demanding Berlin cease supplying Kiev with weapons.
Wagenknecht slammed the German government for trying to "ruin Russia," urging leaders to make Moscow an "offer" so that peace talks could begin. The rally, she said, represented the "start of a citizens’ initiative" and the launch of a "new, strong peace movement in Germany."
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Die Linke is relevant in all of the eastern states (where their electorate is either socially conservative boomers nostalgic for the DDR, or all of the millenials and zoomers that are sick of being hunted by nazi skinheads) and has some success in almost all major cities (where their electorate is young radlibs that find the Greens to neoliberal). Unfortunately, they're in decline as there's an unending struggle session between a more moderate, socially progressive wing and a more openly anti-imperialist, but socially reactionary wing (headed by Wagenknecht). Instead of doing the cool thing and settling on being a progressive anti-imperialist party, or doing the sensible thing and throwing out the wreckers around Wagenknecht, or ideally both, the party leadership has decided to let the struggle session simmer on low heat for years, which has proven disastrous for the party's overall popularity as they're losing votes on both sides at once.