Opinions of socialism in former socialist states

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Support for socialist and communist parties

Russia

Germany

Percentage of votes for the German Left Party (Die Linke) in the second-round 2017 German federal election.

Germans living in the former East are less likely to support liberal mainstream parties, opting instead to support leftist parties like Die Linke as well as the far-right anti-immigrant party Alternative für Deutschland.

Generational gap

People old enough to remember life before the crisis of the 1980s and the capitalist era have consistently more positive views of the system they experienced firsthand than people born after 1980.