East Germany’s exodus of women fuels growing political radicalisation • FRANCE 24 English
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of industry in the former East Germany, many women have left the region and never returned. Men are now over-represented, with a surplus of up to 25 percent in some municipalities. This shortage of women has created a vicious cycle: a rapidly ageing population, a loss of social cohesion and a decline in the attractiveness of eastern cities. The gender imbalance is also fuelling political radicalisation, which Germany’s far-right AfD party is taking advantage of. FRANCE 24’s Anne Mailliet, Willy Mahler, Nick Holdsworth and Caroline du Bled report.
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47 comments
Yes, when people are freed from socialist authoritarianism they FLEE, and they will never return.
They despise you.
True, my nephew married a lovely EG girl and she emigrated to Australia
The future of the usa.
One word – hypergamy
Ha! I went to Germany and Czechoslovakia after the wall came down. Back then the men all left to find a job with a decent wage. The only men left were the few that were married.
How can you say there is an East Germany???
On October 3, 1990, East and West Germany were reunified, ending the division of Germany. The former East Germany dissolved itself and its states joined the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), which was previously West Germany.
Authoritarianism has societal and economic repercussions that reverberate for decades, if not centuries.
To say “women are leaving the area for better education and job opportunities” is like saying ‘women have no use in the home.’ Daft talk about intentional setup for failure elsewhere
Idk maga is in east germany? Weird
Get foreign girlfriends,wives. Problem solved .
I been to East Germany most of them are racists
Yeah let's live like in the citys, next social project, all the homeless that you created by inviting a couople of million without any infrastructure…
france, you know nothing. time to show you who's the boss in EU again.
Men and women need to stop bossing each around.
I'm not sure that teaching women how to 'resist' is going to be helpful…wouldn't that just cause more division and make them more likely to want to leave so they can be around people with similar ideas and less controversy and conflict?
it makes sense to me now why around 60% women will be single and childless by the year 2030 at the earliest globally.
There us no "East Germany" anymore. There is an eastern part of the :Federal Republic of Germany" (current name of Germany).
Go West, life is peaceful there, go West….🎷
This is bias. You didn’t interview even one women that actually is happily married there. Your reporting is lacking.
so are none of the men leaving? and what information supports that men are fueling the change in politics? this report seems more like you had an idea and went in search of information to support what you already believed.
It's odd how women are always to blame.
American women should leave too!!
"East German exodus of women follows growing political radicalization"
Fixed your title
A man that loses his wife, doesn't know what he's gained…
😉
It’s time to let in some Ukrainian immigrants to help this community
East Germans are similar to the Russian counterpart typically more barbaric racist and xenophobic no wonder they want to leave. Not all women want to be slaves to a man especially a nutty one
Do they know what a woman is?
Claudia needs to leave I thought she was a middle aged woman in her 50’s!!! She’s a year younger than me and look 25 years older😬
Merkel should have stayed in East Germany
Men blaming women, women blaming men. The truth is always in the middle.
They have to make sure they shave their legs when going over to the west lol
Nothing is more dangerous than young men without jobs and without women. It’s not safe for the society as a whole and not safe for the women who remain. To me, in the US, this is represented by young men who cannot find girlfriends or wives due to economic and social changes. I see this as a problem for China as well as the one child policy generated millions more men than women. China, too, has a missing generation of women.
Some years back, some young male AFD supporters were chatting online, one of them suggested that since women vote for leftist parties more often than men, maybe it would be good to restrict voting to men only for a while.
It's not just women, anyone with common sense wouldn't want to stay in a desolated place with high poverty and unemployment rates and on top of that surrounded by low educated racist people.
Liberal white women are quite possibly the single most destructive force within Western societies.
Women love cities. The amenities of a city replace the services provided by their parents when they were children. Restaurants to cook their food, people to fix anything broken, police to leep them safe, etc. All they need do is find a job and then their time can be spent socializing, drinking, etc.
import ukrainian women problem solved
Some men in these comments: talk about women not as independent full people with hopes and dreams and ambitions but as cattle which is being stolen by "Turkish and Africans in WG".
The same men: i don't understand why women are leaving, we are such nice guys!
Oh, of course, the poor, innocent politicians aren't to blame for anything; they're all just little white doves who've never done any harm.
Rural Ireland has the same problem, but I don’t see them becoming radicalised. Maybe they’re just too busy working?
So what, they are hoping the government will force women to stay? Or mass import women?
Talks about radicalization and then tries to sell the ”patriarchy” conspiracy theory. What a load of rubbish.
Has anyone thought about polyamory 🤔🤔
Welp, I won’t be visiting that part of the world anytime soon.
Let's be honest, fascism is an ugly business.
Noting that no women were interviewed that did not return.
Fr Claudia seems like a cool person
Same in Rural France
Spain
The country side is emptying
It’s not political you muppet s
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