It’s Still East … and West Germany
22nd October 2025
As the establishment political center in Germany clings to power, sociopolitical disunity and profound disaffection have created a new East-West divide.
The elites’ use of firewalls and miscounts against opposition parties perpetuates that divide and an unsavory two-tier society.
It’s been more than three decades since the German reunification of 1990. Between Kiel and Freiburg, Dusseldorf and Dresden, many today have no first-hand recollection of the country’s Cold War era—much less its division. A divided Germany is history; East and West are reunited—or are they?
October 3 was a public holiday in Germany, the Day of German Unity. And yet, not insignificant differences and palpable tensions between the former East and West Germanies persist.