Merkel Raps Putin Over Ukraine Conflict During Visit to Moscow

The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 10, 2015 | Anton Troianovski

[McGruff]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin over the Ukraine crisis, balancing a tribute to Soviet losses in World War II with a rebuke of Russia’s policies today.

Ms. Merkel flew to the Russian capital a day after she skipped Moscow’s massive military parade in honor of the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. She joined Mr. Putin at a military wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside the Kremlin wall, walking behind slowly marching Russian soldiers. In a news conference after the two spoke for about two hours, Ms. Merkel described the immensity of Nazi crimes in Eastern Europe but also insisted Mr. Putin’s Russia was itself breaking international law in Ukraine.

[McGruff]

Talk about uncomfortable.

[lee martell]

Looking at the first two words in the headline, I imagined for a moment that I was going to see Frau Merkel Rapping about Putin. Would she be imitating the notorious Nicki Minaj? Her Rapper’s Lament would show close ups of her with a threatening scowl. That would be a riot.

[Paid_Russian_Troll]

Merkel can’t be uncomfortable at Red Square. She was touring it since pre-teens, probably even kissed a Lenin’s mummy on its lips. How else could she get anywhere near politics in East Germany?

‘..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.”

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.”...’

‘...Merkel, who speaks good Russian, was well informed about Perestroika and the distancing of the Soviet government from the East German regime, the book says. She read Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s speeches in the Communist Party newspaper Pravda, and made contacts with East German reform groups only a few months before the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989.

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.”...’

New Biography Causes Stir
How Close Was Merkel to the Communist System?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/topic/angela_merkel/archiv-2013136.html

I find the last paragraph the most eye-opening. Isn’t her new cozy EUSSR all about that? They have plenty of other East European and Soviet ‘former’ commie apparatchics within ranks in Brussels. And with the recent Ost-politic probably decided to combine both conflicting wings of leftism (including one falsely advertised like right wing).