Joke or Gaffe? Stallone-Stalin Wades Into AfD ‘Anti-Extremist’ Platform - Report

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A spokesman for the AfD reportedly explained that the image was used deliberately to describe the mainstream nature of a certain “extremist” left-wing organisation.

The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has committed a possible gaffe while choosing an image for its new platform aimed "against left-wing extremism", Ruhr24 reports.

As the media outlet points out, the party apparently sought to use the picture of Joseph Stalin to illustrate a post "Interventionist Left", but instead used a joke image of Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone portrayed as the famous Soviet leader.

​An AfD spokesman told DPA, however, that this wasn’t a mistake, claiming that this particular image was used show that "the described left-wing extremist organisation is too mainstream".

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