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There has been a lot of understandable anguish about the election results in the German Länder Thüringen and Sachsen on Sunday.

Thüringen I know less well, but I have been to Sachsen (and Brandenburg that holds elections later in September) a LOT in the past two years during my #CrossBorderRail project.

What strikes me overwhelmingly is NOT that these places are swamped with immigrants, as per the AfD rhetoric, but they are absent of life, lacking vibrancy.