But what a difference! Then there was a powerful communist party, closely aligned with the interests and policies of the Soviet Union.  Now the party of protest is unambiguously the party of historical losers: in the East, of Germans who are nostalgic for the planned economy and society of state socialism; in the West, of critics of the SPD who lost a power struggle with Gerhard Schroeder.
Ahora el partido de la protesta es sin ambigüedad alguna el de los perdedores históricos: en el Este, los alemanes nostálgicos de la economía y la sociedad planificadas del socialismo estatal; en el Oeste, los críticos del PSD que perdieron una lucha de poder con Gerhard Schroeder.