Karl Marx pilgrims lead communists of East Germany back from oblivion

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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20041121
Author:MURDO MacLEOD

IT WAS once the only way to get ahead in East Germany - now most Germans are amazed to find that they still exist.

The former East Germany's communist youth organisation, the Free German Youth (FDJ), is making a stuttering comeback amid disillusion with the grim reality of German unification, and nostalgia for the cost and predictable world of socialism. They march against the 'annexation' of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) by the west, and want to carry out their national service in the East German army in order to fight the forces of western imperialism.

Supporters are even heading ...

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