Word: volkssolidarit
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...performance in the eastern states also speaks to promise unfulfilled. Ossis - Easterners - vote differently from Wessis - Westerners - because they still perceive their interests as being different. Ossis earn less, produce less and have higher rates of unemployment than Wessis. According to a recent survey by the eastern German charity Volkssolidarität, 1 in every 10 Ossis wishes he or she were still living in the G.D.R...
...There is nothing like the Baader- Meinhof gang in modern Germany. But offenses by far-right extremists jumped by 16% last year, with the rise most marked in the east, according to a report published in May by the German Interior Ministry. The Volkssolidarität survey in July found that 41% of Ossis were hostile to foreigners...
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