{"id":1619,"date":"2024-02-13T15:23:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunita-mitter.de\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2024-02-13T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:23:38","slug":"what-i-fear-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunita-mitter.de\/en\/what-i-fear-the-most\/1619\/","title":{"rendered":"What I fear the most"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"“Mottchen*, what I fear most is that the new right-wingers will become a majority again.”<\/p>\n

My mother voiced her fears back in the early 1990s. She fled Koenigsberg with her parents because of the Red Army when she was 7 years old. She and her father suffered physically and emotionally all their lives as a result of their experiences of flight and expulsion.<\/p>\n

My father migrated to Germany from Jalandhar, India in 1957, hoping to realise many of his dreams here.<\/p>\n

At that time, my parents were a couple who faced a lot of racist hostility, including from their own families.<\/p>\n

When my mum told me her fears, I thought that it wouldn’t happen again. Ever since Trump was able to become American president, I have feared that my mum’s fears and both my parents’ experiences could become reality.<\/p>\n

I am glad that my parents did not have to experience the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine or the rise of the AfD (the German far right).<\/p>\n

Against this background, it is important to me to fly the flag against the right and in favour of peace and diversity.<\/p>\n

*you can roughly translate this nickname with “my little butterfly”.<\/p>\n

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