Posted on 11/09/2019 9:14:39 PM PST by Olog-hai
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that her leadership style is partly shaped by her upbringing in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Merkel made the remarks in an interview with German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung a day ahead of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
“For 35 years, I experienced the official opinion as different from my own,” Merkel said, referring to the communist leadership of the former East Germany. “I was alone with my opinion, or shared it with very few people. That’s why it does not bother me when others see things differently.”
The chancellor has successfully pushed through several divisive policies during her 14 years in power, a fact that she credits to her youthful experience of having a dissenting opinion. …
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Well, that explains a lot.
Germans who objected to the Muslim invasion of Germany under Merkel were told to march to my drum.
Remember that Marcus Wolf, Stasi chief helped the U.S. set up DHS.
But the DHS inst the worst agency. The unholy trio fbi, dea, cia are the worst.
The always fugly Merkel imports Muslim rape as revenge against the pretty girls.
Taqiyya
Nick Cage (sneeringly) says: “You Don’t Say!!”
That Stazistyle.
No Scheisse, Adoph.
Sieg Heil!!
Or whatever the commie version was...................
“A new biography covering Chancellor life in East Germany has caused a stir by suggesting she was closer to the communist apparatus and its ideology than previously thought.
Published this week and written by journalists Günther Lachmann and Ralf Georg Reuth, the book quotes Gunter Walther, a former colleague of hers at the Academy of Sciences in East Berlin, as saying she had been secretary for “Agitation and Propaganda” in the Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ) youth organization at the institute. Merkel, a trained physicist, worked at the academy from 1978 until 1989.
.... her father Horst Kasner was a Protestant pastor and a committed socialist. He moved to East Germany from West Germany in 1954.
But former German Transport Minister Günther Krause — an eastern German politician who worked with her in the final months of the GDR and as a fellow minister in the government ex-chancellor Helmut Kohl in the early 1990s — contradicts her in the book and says she propagated Marxism-Leninism.
“With Agitation and Propaganda you’re responsible for brainwashing in the sense of Marxism,” he said. “That was her task and that wasn’t cultural work. Agitation and Propaganda, that was the group that was meant to fill people’s brains with everything you were supposed to believe in the GDR, with all the ideological tricks. And what annoys me about this woman is simply the fact that she doesn’t admit to a closeness to the system in the GDR. From a scientific standpoint she wasn’t indispensable at the Academy of Sciences. But she was useful as a pastor’s daughter in terms of Marxism-Leninism. And she’s denying that. But it’s the truth.”
The book says she and her father and brother Marcus discussed political developments with other people on September 1989. For them, the biography says, German unification was still inconceivable at that point “not just because it wouldn’t have fitted into the bipolar world but because they strictly rejected the Western system of society.”
It quotes Merkel as having said at the time: “If we reform the GDR, it won’t be in terms of the Federal Republic.”
She was a communist. Apparently it never LEFT her thinking.
Thanks - great post.
I knew she grew up in East Germany, but most of the information from the new book is completely new to me, too.
To be a feckless, unprincipled asshole?
She governs as if STASI was watching her every move.
Wow. Eye opening words.
She has the nerve to say she thought DIFFERENTLY?!!?
Nope. She marched lockstep with them.
Commie till the end.
It’s SAD that Vlad has become less of a communist than her.
NO, I don’t trust Vlad. And I wouldn’t write a bad editorial about him lol
But he loves his country and saw that saving it meant embracing Christianity, even if he doesn’t believe in it himself.
It’s MUCH MORE than she would do.
I would agree with Merkel as she graduated from.... “Karl Marx University. “
They since changed the name to the University of Leipzig, but it was Karl Marx when she attended.
It was renamed Karl Marx University in 1953 by the communist leadership of East Germany, and the original name was restored in 1990 after Merkel had graduated. .
“”On Sunday evening, Merkel said she hadn’t covered up anything about her past. “I can only rely on my memory,” she said at a public screening of her favorite movie, a popular love film made in East Germany, on Sunday night. “If something turns out to be different, I can live with that.”
Her spokesman, Steffen Seibert, denied on Monday that the chancellor had ever covered up political aspects of her life in East Germany. “The chancellor has been making statements about her life in the GDR for years in books and interviews,” he said. “She always answered questions openly and based on her honest memories.””
Sounds familiar...
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