Germany’s Left Party on Saturday called for an exemption for eastern Germany to the European Commission’s proposed oil embargo against Russia. “Until now, the principle of the German government has been that sanctions must affect (Russian President Vladimir) Putin more than us,” but “hits the eastern German states much harder than the Russian leadership,” said Sören Pellmann of the Left Party. A lack of transitional arrangements for the former communist GDR could lead to social and economic upheaval. “Prices will explode, the eastern German economy will be set back tens of years,” Pellmann tol…