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Citizens of Leipzig commemorate the peaceful revolution of 1989 (archive photo from 2007)
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The chairman of the Union of Victims' Associations of Communist Tyranny, Dieter Dombrowski, has criticized a call from the ranks of the left for Monday demonstrations against the gas levy and high energy prices.
"The fact that the left is trying to repurpose the Monday demonstrations that arose in resistance to the SED dictatorship is shameful and shows a lack of historical awareness," Dombrowski told the editorial network Germany (RND).
This is done "in common with right-wing forces".
"We already know that from left-wing forces from the Weimar Republic."
The left-wing parliamentary group's Eastern Commissioner, Sören Pellmann, had called for Monday demonstrations against the gas levy and high energy prices.
The term Monday demonstration has symbolic meaning from the time of the peaceful revolution in the GDR in 1989. Later it was repeatedly used for actions against the policies of the respective federal government.
The former federal commissioner for the Stasi documents, Marianne Birthler, also criticized the call by the left.
"I find the project quite wrong and forgetful of history," she told the RND.
»The Monday demonstrations have already been exploited by the AfD.
It creates a closeness that I don't think the left intends.
At least I hope so.”
The AfD wants to organize demonstrations against the high inflation on Mondays this autumn, for which it blames the federal government.
Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) had previously described the left-wing project as "indecent" and "scandalous".
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