Maybe, it is ironic. Reactionaires hate communism. But, comparing to the FRG, the GDR had some characteristics that reactionaires might support.
The National Volksarmee kept some old prussian traditions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAPWgLaY71I The Bundeswehr became very American look-a-like.
In the GDR, kids were more "protected" against drugs and free love than they were in the FRG.
In the GDR, capital punishment was legal. In the FRG, there was no capital punishment.
In Russia, there is the Dugin's "forth political theory" who support all antiliberal political views, no matter if they are far left or far right. They have positive views both on tsarism and on stalinism.
Is there something like this in Germany?
