Christine Lieberknecht, State Premier of Thuringia walks past Bodo Ramelow (front R) of the Left party (Die Linke) to cast her vote in elections for a new Thuringia state premier in parliament in Erfurt December 5, 2014. The Cold War has flared up again in Germany ahead of a tight and unpredictable state assembly vote on Friday in the eastern state of Thuringia, where the reform communist Left party is yearning to take control of a regional government for the first time and lead a state coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens. The SPD and Greens have been accused of betraying victims of East Germany's communist dictatorship by cooperating with the Left, which is popular in the east and traces its roots to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany that built the Berlin Wall. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)