According to the magazine, German journalist and editor-in-chief of the ‘Compact’ magazine Jürgen Elsässer – one of the main initiators of this oppositional network – supports the PEGIDA movement, plays left-wing politicians into hand and is well-known as a Kremlin propagandist.
German expert Jupp Legrand defines Elsässer’s position in simple words: "People against elites, truth against media lies, for nation and against the EU, against the United States and for Putin".
Last year, Compact magazine organized a conference in Berlin called "Peace with Russia. For a sovereign Europe." The event was attended by many prominent representatives of both political parties.
Some of them, such as SPD representative Andreas von Bülow and former Minister of Defense and CDU member Willy Wimmer, are also planning to take part in another Compact conference in October, where they are planning to discuss the hegemonic policy of the US.
Green Politician Beck expressed his dissatisfaction with such a development of the events and claimed that members of the leading German parties should refrain from participation in these events and give up any connections with destructive “political sects”.
