The so-called "March for Peace" today gathered some 10,000 people in the center of Berlin, according to police data, despite warnings from practically the entire parliamentary spectrum about the presumed infiltration of radicals from the right or left.
The concentration had been called by the leader of the pro-communist wing of The Left, Sahra Wagenknecht, and the activist Alice Schwarzer, an icon for German feminism, which in recent times has opted for more conservative right-wing positions.
The march passed through the vicinity of the emblematic Brandenburg Gate, while a police operation of nearly 1,400 agents guarded the demonstration to prevent disorders.
Wagenknecht and Schwarzer signed the so-called "Manifesto for Peace" two weeks ago, against arms supplies to Ukraine and accusing the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz of promoting a warmongering escalation with military aid to Kiev.
The positions of both leaders have unleashed criticism both from Scholz's tripartite party between Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals and from the opposition Christian Democrat Union (CDU).
The leadership of the Left has distanced itself from the call of Wagenknecht, whose positions are close to the pro-Russia postulates of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party closest to the Kremlin line of the German Parliament.
Schwarzer, a history of German feminism, defends the need to start peace negotiations immediately.
Foreign Affairs Minister Green Annalena Baerbock and her co-religionist Robert Habeck, head of the economy, have branded that position "naive" and dangerous, besides warning that the march would attract radical elements and be instrumentalized by the Kremlin.
Baerbock defends the most critical line within the German government with respect to Moscow and in the last UN General Assembly warned, regarding the resolutions for the Russian withdrawal, that a submission -of Ukraine- was not equivalent to peace.
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