The mainstream media seem to be in panic mode about a pro-Putin party "winning big" in the German State of Saxony-Anhalt (population just over 2 million). But there is also plenty of evidence to suggest that Germany's Alternative für Deutschland Party (AfD) has reached a peak and is now scraping its head against a very hard ceiling that should lock them out of power in Germany, while hopefully pushing less Putin-friendly parties in a more nationalist, immigration restrictionist direction.
One thing you have to always realise about the AfD is that although it obviously contains genuine German nationalists, the party itself and its leadership is completely subverted by Kremlin assets or political opportunists who intuit that they must do the Kremlin's bidding in order to succeed in the party.
One thing you have to always realise about the AfD is that although it obviously contains genuine German nationalists, the party itself and its leadership is completely subverted by Kremlin assets or political opportunists who intuit that they must do the Kremlin's bidding in order to succeed in the party.
So, how did the AfD do in the latest election? They got 576,037 votes (43.8% of the vote) in a state that has the oldest and Whitest population in Germany. Old frightened White boomers are, of course, the ideal demographic for the AfD and any other pro-Putinist populist party in the West.
The average age in Saxony-Anhalt is 48.3 years, versus 44.9 years nationally; while it can also be assumed to be the Whitest state. Although the Federal Republic makes a point of not collecting racial data, Saxony-Anhalt ranks 3rd in terms of migrant population with 7.6% versus 14.8% nationally. However, the largest foreign groups here are from Ukraine, Syria, Poland, Romania and Afghanistan, so it's hardly Mogadishu on the Elbe.
Under the German electoral system, which excludes votes for parties getting less than 5% of the vote, getting around 44% of the vote should have been enough to have secured the AfD a majority of the seats in the state parliament, but in this case they only got 39 out of the 82 seats.
The main reason for this is that the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), an extreme leftist party, managed to get over 5% of the vote and so received (5 seats). But why does the BSW even exist, as there is a perfectly idiotic far-left party in Die Linke for dumb leftists to vote for, which actually got 11% of the vote and 12 seats?
In fact, the BSW split off from Der Linke as recently as 2024 under the pretext of being more "socially conservative, blah blah blah." My view is that the BSW is just another crypto-Putinist party, like the AfD, and split off from Die Linke as part of what I call a "Kremlinshoe Strategy."
The average age in Saxony-Anhalt is 48.3 years, versus 44.9 years nationally; while it can also be assumed to be the Whitest state. Although the Federal Republic makes a point of not collecting racial data, Saxony-Anhalt ranks 3rd in terms of migrant population with 7.6% versus 14.8% nationally. However, the largest foreign groups here are from Ukraine, Syria, Poland, Romania and Afghanistan, so it's hardly Mogadishu on the Elbe.
Under the German electoral system, which excludes votes for parties getting less than 5% of the vote, getting around 44% of the vote should have been enough to have secured the AfD a majority of the seats in the state parliament, but in this case they only got 39 out of the 82 seats.
The main reason for this is that the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), an extreme leftist party, managed to get over 5% of the vote and so received (5 seats). But why does the BSW even exist, as there is a perfectly idiotic far-left party in Die Linke for dumb leftists to vote for, which actually got 11% of the vote and 12 seats?
In fact, the BSW split off from Der Linke as recently as 2024 under the pretext of being more "socially conservative, blah blah blah." My view is that the BSW is just another crypto-Putinist party, like the AfD, and split off from Die Linke as part of what I call a "Kremlinshoe Strategy."
This is a variation of the well-known Horseshoe Theory, in which the extreme Left and Right converge. However, in Kremlinshoe Theory, this convergence can be tactical as well as ideological, and usually has some ulterior motive dictated by the interests of the Kremlin, for example opposing military spending in the West, betraying Ukraine, or increasing dependence on Russian oil gas through abandoning nuclear power, etc.
Viewed in this context, the BSW looks like a Moscow-directed operation to hoover up votes from the Left that the AfD could never reach in an attempt to outflank the so-called Brandmauer (Firewall) of the German establishment parties to stop the AfD getting into power. This Firewall is an agreement by normal political parties not to enter into coalitions with the AfD.
Now, ironically, it looks like the BSW has both stopped the AfD getting an actual majority while also providing it with a way of breaching the Firewall by doing the kind of deal that Die Linke would never do. Together, the AfD and the BSW will have enough votes for a majority. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
The good news is that based on this result and the fact that more revelations of Putinist spying, infiltration, and terrorism in Germany, like the recent terrorist attack at Leipzig Airport, will be forthcoming, it is highly unlikely that the AfD will be strong enough to make a national breakthrough.
This is exactly why the Kremlin always prefers to employ two shoes in its attempt to subvert Western democracies, attacking both from the right and the left. You have been warned.
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...to tears.
Also, remember that until the Kremlin is crushed, no Western democracy will be able to have authentic nationalist politics. In fact, the Kremlin is the main thing that stands between Western countries engaging in the genuine nationalist politics that they need to survive.
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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.
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