It's pretty easy to be successfull when your competition is the established parties who make they contempt for Germans clear every day.
The German-Russian sympathy is the most incredible oddity and never fails to breed a major fraud - Schroeder, Wirecard, AfD.
What active role? The far right is surging all over Western countries because the post-WW2 liberal, progressive, multicultural order has completely failed.
The experiment has failed so we're moving back to things that are known to work. No need to blame Russia.
Honestly, I hate to tell you this, but the Germans have a whole track record of this fascism malarkey. I'm sure Vlad is pleased as punch, and definitely nudging it along, but if the influence was quite so impactive it would also be a lot more visible.
Never said they were installed by Russia.
Putain only has to find the proper bad seeds and water them.
That is clearly what is happening here. This is well known in Germany, and they are even kinda fighting internally over how much display of sympathy for Russia is proper to show publicly.