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Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing (www.reuters.com)

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let's keep in mind this was translated from German

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Indeed, the German word this was likely translated from has a different meaning. A literal translation would be something like "to transfer into government ownership", so the nation as a whole doesn't fearure in it, even though the overall meaning is very similar.