In 1968, Merkel joined the Free German Youth (FDJ), the official communist youth movement sponsored by the ruling Marxist–Leninist Socialist Unity Party of Germany.[34][35][36] Membership was nominally voluntary, but those who did not join found it difficult to gain admission to higher education.[37] She did not participate in the secular coming of age ceremony Jugendweihe, however, which was common in East Germany. Instead, she was confirmed.[38] During this time, she participated in several compulsory courses on Marxism-Leninism with her grades only being regarded as “sufficient”.
Later, at the Academy of Sciences, she became a member of its FDJ secretariat. According to her former colleagues, she openly propagated Marxism as the secretary for “Agitation and Propaganda”.[40] However, Merkel has denied this claim and stated that she was secretary for culture, which involved activities like obtaining theatre tickets and organising talks by visiting Soviet authors.[41] She stated “I can only rely on my memory, if something turns out to be different, I can live with that.”
Here is another thing we forget at our peril: not only was Germany Nazi in the not too distant past, a good section of it was COMMUNIST in the more recent past. Germany’s current Prime Minister–I think is her title, or Chancellor–was a Communist. She was raised as a Communist.
She was raised, other words, to hate Capitalism, liberal Democracy, Constitutional curbs on the power of government, and to believe that the State should be the ultimate arbiter of right and wrong. She may, for obvious reasons, want to distance herself from all that, but all Communists lie. This does not mean that she is lying, but if she is a Communist, there is no reason she would not.
I look at the history of the past 100 years, and I see fields littered with corpses, and people still, even now, trying to deal with the aftermath of all that death and destruction. The divorces, the addictions, the psychological pain.
Without intense inner work, it is nearly impossible for most of us to even know what diseases we are carrying, and this is important, since many of them are contagious, particularly and most egregiously to our children, which I will remind everyone Angela Merkel never had. She does not speak for future generations of any personal significance to her. It is all an abstraction, which is all any politics ever is for a Communist, or any other sort of ideologue.