The only "anti-nuke" movement the Soviet Union was interested in and funded was the one against nuclear weapons being stationed in Europe, which had little to d

The only "anti-nuke" movement the Soviet Union was interested in and funded was the one against nuclear weapons being stationed in Europe, which had little to do with the Greens. Protests against nuclear power were almost always local NIMB kind of things, not bound to an ideology. Case in point: The party in Germany that now wants nuclear energy back is the party that rules out a permanent disposal site in their home state. The Greens were a tiny fringe movement that had no influence on public opinion at all. It was Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima that turned the public against nuclear energy. Russia has a much tighter grip on nuclear energy than on gas. Germany stopped using Russian gas within a year, countries are still figuring out where to get their enriched uranium from. Not to mention that many uranium suppliers are closer to the Russian sphere of influence than to the Western one, e.g. see the Nigerien coup d'état. Coal is the only fossil fuel source Germany has. Therefore, the two big parties in Germany that won every federal election in German post-war history have been friends of coal. Germany's coal addiction, just like China's, has never had anything to do with the Greens. The Greens are the most anti-Russian party in Germany, so far that Russia turned hippies into war hawks. Before the war, they were the only party opposing Nord Stream 2 and they were the only party that wanted to stop the import of Russian fossil fuels altogether, which was not a popular position to have. Conservatives painted them as hypocrites for wanting "dirty" LNG.