"Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"
— Otto von Bismarck

January 1, 1970

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In German political parlance, "black" more often referred to Catholic interests than to anarchism; it is possible that if Bismarck did say this, it referred rather to a union between the Catholic Center and the Socialist "reds" against the German nationalist/Protestant "blues."