“我们中的一些人,包括我自己,过早地、过于笼统地宣布了社会民主党人的顺利复兴”——维利·勃兰特在讲这句话时表示他已恢复清醒。在“现实社会主义”历史性地失败之后,社会民主党人对于新的发展机遇所表现出的极度兴奋现在不得不降温。事实上,东欧国家新成立的社会民主党有的未能进入议会(如在匈牙利、捷克斯洛伐克),有的在本 “Some of us, including myself, prematurely and overly broadly declared the successful reunification of Social-Democrats” - Willie Brandt said in his remarks that he has regained his soberness. After the historic failure of “real socialism,” the extreme excitement shown by the social democrats over the new opportunities for development now has to cool down. In fact, some of the newly formed Social Democrats in Eastern European countries failed to enter the parliament (as in Hungary and Czechoslovakia)