Matthias Rudolph poses in front of Nikolai Kirche during a Reuters interview in Leipzig, Germany, October 15, 2019. REUTERS/Paul Carrel
LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - When Matthias Rudolph joined political protests in Leipzig in 1989, he wanted to change the Communist German Democratic Republic. Thirty years on, he enjoys the freedoms the fall of the Berlin Wall brought, but is not entirely happy either.
Like many Germans in the former East, Rudolph, 55, laments the way reunification unfolded - "there wasn't a new start" - and describes a divided society today that he believes drives some disaffected easterners towards political extremism.
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