“While the Antifascist Action and all opposing groups were banned after Hitler became head of state, the antifa communist ideology never went away. From the ashes of WWII, it was absorbed and institutionalized in the official state ideology of what would become the German Democratic Republic, also known as East Germany. From 1949 to 1990, East Germany existed as a communist state carved out of the Weimar Republic by the Soviet Union, one of WWII’s victorious Allied leaders. For over forty years, the extremely repressive conditions in East Germany exemplified what “antifa” state-building actually looks like.” RussiaCommunismSoviet UnionWwiiPolitical IdeologyAntifaEast GermanyAntifascism Book:Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy Source: Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy