Over the past few days, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of various cities in Germany, and each of them demonstrated for his idea. In Berlin, in the central city square of Alexanderplatz, people chanted: “We are one people”, “Freedom, freedom”, “Resistance!”. The most furious shouted to the police - "Traitors to the people!"

It just could not do with slogans - bottles and stones flew into the security guards. More than 700 people marched in Bremen. In Dortmund, police dispersed demonstrators by force. The largest demonstration took place in Stuttgart. Several thousand people took to the streets there.

If an outside observer watches these videos, then he will have the impression that the German people are starting a revolution against the state and government. This is a misconception.

Firstly, the Germans love to demonstrate - for human rights, for nature conservation, for saving birds, for lowering gas prices, for anything. Secondly, German burghers are so tired of the isolation regime that slogans play a secondary role. It was important to take to the streets, get together in groups, shout out their slogans and argue with the police, and if you're not lucky, go home with the coronavirus.

By the way, it was coronavirus that became a certain general idea that united the demonstrators in many cities of Germany. At the same time, the demonstrators are difficult to distribute by political preferences, level of aggressiveness. It is important to understand whether spontaneous anti-coronavirus demonstrations can develop into a political process that can undermine political power in the country?

According to one of the German sociologists, such demonstrations have the potential to gather completely diverse groups on the street, each of which has its own motives for fighting the state.

Trying to separate left and right extremists according to the degree of danger is a futile affair. Both of these groups are violent, and past demonstrations have proven this. The police even recorded several attacks on correspondents - they were beaten up, the equipment was broken, and the crowd at that time yelled: “The press is lying.”

The most incredible reasons for the demonstration come nevertheless from the right flank of German society. For example, in Berlin, the "global elite" was cursed. Of course, after this the names of political and financial figures of Germany and the world were called, starting from Rockefeller to German virologists with Jewish names. It was hard not to catch the anti-Semitic darling. The most aggressive reportedly persuaded the crowd to speak out against doctors and nurses. Doctors - those who fight the infection every day, became known as the SS men. 

“This concentration camp is now called differently -“ a hospital with a coronavirus, ”shouted the leader of the demonstrators in Berlin. 

The far-right has clearly used today's situation to openly proclaim its slogans. It was difficult for them to prevent this, because the crowd, tired of isolation, took to the streets and she absolutely did not care what the loud speakers were screaming.

Is it dangerous? How dangerous! After all, it was just or almost so that the Nazis came to power in the distant thirties of the last century. In those years, the people, exhausted by unemployment and hunger, were ready to listen to any speaker who promised release from suffering. Therefore, some time ago, French President Emmanuel Macron compared the current situation with the years of formation of National Socialism. What we saw at the weekend in Germany - mass demonstrations with a predominance of aggressive and offensive slogans - may become the forerunner of large and difficult changes in German society.

The fact that radical ideas penetrated the most diverse sectors of society, even government circles, is described in one juicy incident in the life of the German Ministry of the Interior. An official of one of the ministry’s departments, without permission from a higher authority, issued a statement on the state of affairs in Germany on official paper with the emblem of the Ministry of the Interior and handed it to the press. On 80 pages (!) The referent in black colors described the situation in Germany related to the incorrect, in his opinion, actions of the German government. He predicted hunger, poverty, unemployment, long lines for free soup. This forecast, which, due to the state emblem is perceived as official, was published on the page of the conservative online newspaper and instantly distributed in all corners of the country. 

The Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer denied all the data that were given in the report, and called the referent an irresponsible employee, whom no one authorized for such steps. But the information is already walking around the country and does not add calm to the streets. By the way, the referent is suspended from work, he is forbidden to use the ministerial computer and use his email address to receive and transmit information. They say that in the near future the contract for work with him will be terminated.

But there are still chances for the recovery of German society. In another area, not very far from Alexanderplatz, on a street named after Nikolai Berzarin, the first military commandant of post-war Berlin, another demonstration took place. At the bas-relief to the legendary general, the demonstrators left bouquets of flowers, lit candles.

Under a commemorative plaque, someone wrote with a red felt-tip pen: “Please set us free again!”

The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.