Strange Bedfellows: Putin's Fifth Column in Germany A-Z

The left-wing magazine Jungle World recently put together a list of Putin's biggest supporters around the globe and noted that the support crossed all political lines: 

Das autokratische, antiliberale Regime Putins hat alte Freunde und neue Handelspartner auf der ganzen Welt und quer durch alle politischen Lager. Hier eine kleine Auswahl.

("Putin's autocratic and anti-liberal Regime has old friends and new trading partners around the world and across all political camps.")

Here I'm just going to list the German representatives.  Go to the original piece for the complete list and descriptions.

• AfD - Alternative für Deutschland: The right-wing populist party and Germany's other anti-American political party.
• ClemensTönnies -billionaire meat-processor, head of the FC Schalke 04 soccer club and Putin pal.
• German Industry - generally opposes the sanctions imposed on Russia in the wake of Putin's illegal Anschluss of Crimea.
• Jürgen Elsässer - homophobe and unofficial leader of the German pro-Putin Querfront.
• Friedenswinter - the fake "peace movement" in Germany which accuses NATO and the US of "imperialist aggression" but remains silent on Russia's invasion of eastern Ukraine.
• Gabriele Krone-Schmalz - a former journalist and who often appears on TV talk shows as a Putin apologist, author of the pro-Putin book Russland verstehen: Der Kampf um die Ukraine und die Arroganz des Westens
• Gerhard Schröder - the former chancellor of Germany, good pal of Vladimir who has made $$millions as chairman of Putin's gas subsidiary Nord Stream. "wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing"
• Junge Freiheit -  the extreme right-wing weekly which admires Putin for his authoritarian, anti-democratic governing style, and, above all, for his persecution of gays and lesbians in Russia.
• Junge Welt - the Marxist daily which sees Putin as a reincarnation of Josef Stalin.
• Die Linke - the Left Party, the reconstituted SED - the brutal communist party of the former GDR - which just can't quit the Kremlin.
• NPD - the neo-Nazi party in Germany which admires Putin for his attempts to ethnically cleanse Russia and his commitment to the racially pure Russian Volk.
• Pegida - the populist equivalent of the American Tea Party, but with a pronounced anti-Semitic component.  Very active mostly in Dresden and Leipzig - neo-Nazi strongholds.
• Philipp Mißfelder - conservative politician who died unexpectedly in July 2015.
• Politically Incorrect - the right-wing hate blog, admires Putin for his steadfast support of the brutal Syrian dictator Assad.

Jungle World left out some of the other key Putin supporters in Germany.  I personally would add:

-Willy Wimmer, the former CDU Bundestag representative who today is the primary spokesman for Putin's fifth column.

- Helmut Schmidt- the former chancellor considers NATO and the US as a greater threat to peace in Europe than Putin's Russia. He blessed Putin's Anschluss of Crimea.

- Albrecht Müller- Editor of Die NachDenkSeiten and Putin's Lord Haw-Haw.

-Reinhard Merkel - law professor and Putin loyalist, a favorite guest on RT Deutsch.

- Kopp Verlag - the conspiracy site with its star author - fake journalist Udo Ulfkotte.

Putin's Fifth Column keeps growing larger in Germany, fueled by anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism as well as by Putin's propaganda outlets Sputnik and RT Deutsch - embraced by many as a legitimate alternative news source.

Comments

[Jamil Grettisson]

Yes, this is quite an arbitrary list (though I don't want to underestimate the effort), a
bit like the one in German wikipedia:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCtzlicher_Idiot
Example for what is left out: PEGADA/ EnDGAME which is much more Putinist than PEGIDA, or propagandaschau which obviously is a Kreml outlet, but also Büso/ LaRouche and many many others...

We are working on the German part of the 5th Column:
https://no4right.wordpress.com
PEGADA - ENDGAME e.g. here:
https://no4right.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/endgame-deutschland-muss-teil-von-eurasien-werden/#more-51

[David]

Jamil - Vielen Dank! Excellent work!