# East-West divides persist 36 years after German reunification

https://mins.news/en/video/84836

- DW News, 2026-10-03 17:50 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qib0qOhkOgs

> Germany is marking Unity Day, which commemorates the 1990 reunification of East and West Germany. Yet differences in wealth, wages and political attitudes remain more than three decades later. The strong showing of the AfD and other protest parties in eastern Germany has renewed doubts about whether reunification is truly complete.

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