TikTok Youth and East German Dinosaurs: The Success of the Post-Communist Left

A new star has emerged in German politics. Her name is Heidi Reichinnek, she comes from the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, but the GDR probably doesn't remember her, because she was born a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was this young politician, with a large tattoo peeking out from under her left sleeve, who gave fiery speeches in the Bundestag at the end of January, which were watched by many millions of Germans on social media, mainly on TikTok.