The PDS emerged directly from the Socialist Unity Party (SED), the Stalinist ruling party of the former East Germany. Following the collapse of East Germany, the newly formed PDS adopted a ...

given that the party originally grew out of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) that governed East Germany and still commanded much loyalty among the population even after the fall of the ...

It is the offspring of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) – commonly referred to in English as the East German Communist Party – which ruled East Germany for seven decades.

SED distributed notebooks to children with the inscription: “Instead of using this paper for a campaign pamphlet, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . . . gives you, dear Berlin child ...

Back when Germany was a divided land, the ruling communist party was known as the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In its modern guise, the party is now known as Die Linke and governs ...

The official German national holiday has never found ... capitalism and plunder the state-owned property. In 1989, Socialist Unity Party (SED) General Secretary Erich Honecker in East Berlin ...

He also called for unity within the party after months of disquiet ... Leninist ruling party of former East Germany. The Left ...

and the Left Party (the renamed Socialist Unity Party of East Germany). Red-Red-Green is a real possibility not because the Left Party somehow suddenly saw an enormous increase in support.

The fact that some of the Left's members were once part of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), which ran the East German dictatorship, still puts many German voters off — especially older ones.

RFI/Jan van der Made Die Linke is an offspring of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) that ruled communist East Germany for seven decades. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ...

In 1959, the ruling Socialist Unity Party of the German Democratic Republic announced that its writers were to follow the “Bitterfeld Way,” and spend time in industrial plants—to rub off ...