German Bundestag Election 2017

[Devil Wincarnate]

Oct 26, 2017 22:13:32 GMT @odo said:

Oct 26, 2017 22:09:37 GMT Devil Wincarnate said:

Wrocław was a hotbed of anti-communism, not entirely derived from its population being forcibly deported from Lwow. Fighting Solidarity, the hardliners, were based there.

What is the story behind that? 

When the Soviets annexed the "Kresy" (the borderlands in the east) and kicked the Poles out, they were used as somewhat unwilling settlers in the newly annexed west. Wrocław received a disproportionate amount of those from Lwow, and a lot of the local area's sports clubs and cultural organisations were thinly-veiled recreations of the ones they had there- the Communists having effectively banned any mention of Poles living in Lwow. After the end of Communism, they started to express it more freely and the panorama of Old Lwow was brought out of storage and is now a massive tourist attraction.

I'll try and find you some more useful links when I get home but there's a bit about it here:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/wroclaw-how-the-former-german-city-became-a-testing-ground-for-europes-aspirations-after-winning-a6818016.html

On a not unrelated note-Anna Walentynowicz, whose sacking sparked the Solidarity strikes, was a deportee from the Kresy to Gdańsk.

[Georg Ebner]

Change 2013-2017:

Participation:

[Georg Ebner]

CDU/CSU + AfD:

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[Georg Ebner]

The ElectoralCommission presented last FriDay their traditional Representative ElectionStatistics, which can be found at
www.bundeswahlleiter.de/bundestagswahlen/2017/ergebnisse/repraesentative-wahlstatistik.html
2.2 million votes chosen from 2.750 precincts (2.250 normal, 500 postal) were researched.