Communist Party Takes Power in Thuringia State, Germany

Bodo Ramelow, head of the leftist Die Linke party faction in the Thuringia state parliament
Photo: Jens Schlueter/Getty Images

Curious that Germans recognize Communists when they take political power in their country. But for some reason there are no Communists in the United States. They cannot take power or even infiltrate the government. They are unable to conduct surveillance or to harass Americans because they do not exist. Only in Germany, North Korea, China, Venezuela, Cuba and a few other isolated outposts. But none in the United States. No Communists come over the southern border with the illegal aliens. None of them are Communists only capitalists. Really?

[From article]
Germany's far-Left party has returned to power in a state government for the first time since the Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, stoking heated debate about its communist roots.
The Left Party, widely seen as the successor to the Socialist Unity Party (SED) that once ruled East Germany, will head the government of Thuringia after the state parliament narrowly voted to approve a new coalition.
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The coalition, which is completed by the Green Party, will have a majority of just one seat in the state parliament.
Although Mr Ramelow grew up in West Germany, many of the Left Party's leadership were senior figures in the East German communist party and some have been accused of links with the Stasi secret police.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11276037/German-far-Left-party-takes-state-parliament.html

German far-Left party takes state parliament
East German communists return to power 25 years after fall of Berlin Wall
By Justin Huggler, Berlin
4:04PM GMT 05 Dec 2014