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The Left and Social Democratic parties have governed so-called Red Berlin for over a century. State elections are coming up and Berlin's left is divided. DW's Stuart Braun tries to sort the left from the left.

I live just off Karl Marx Strasse in the left-wing heartland of working-class Berlin. Nazis tried to march here sometimes in the 1920s, but the infamous Berlin reds would soon set upon their fascist foes while singing The Internazionale. "Berlin Remains Red!" read the banners around the Kreuzberg and Neukölln districts in those days. Sure, things changed for a time; but nearly a century later, Berlin is still swathed in red - though it's a color with infinite shades.

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