Both the Christian Democrats and the Social Democratic party. tlte two leading political parties in Germany today are thoroughly opposed to communism. And in East Germany. the peoples republic has no popular support. The millions of refugees from Soviet oppression that have streamed into West Germany and the free world have increased the German opposition to communism. In addition to this. competent authorities on German affairs seem to feel the chances for the continued growth of real democracy in the German Republic are the best in all German history. This is so despite the deep problems of developing democratic participation in government after more than a decade of Hitlerian totalitarianism.
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