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Merkel about Gorbachev: I will never forget it. It radically changed my life

2022-08-31 19:18:21Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

 

Merkel about Gorbachev: I will never forget it. It radically changed my life
Merkel and Gorbachev

 

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who died yesterday aged 91, "wrote the history of the world" and "changed my life fundamentally", said former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in the former East Germany.

"He showed by his example how a single politician can change the world for the better," noted Germany's former leader in a particularly moving statement she made as she eulogized the late former leader. "Mikhail Gorbachev also fundamentally changed my life. I will never forget it.”

Without the "courage" of the last leader of the USSR, "the peaceful uprising in the GDR (German Democratic Republic) would not have been possible", underlined Merkel.

"Even today, I can still feel the fear that I felt with many people in the GDR in 1989, that of not knowing if the tanks will return like in 1953, when we shouted 'We are the people,'" the former chancellor recalls, referring to the demonstrations in East Germany by citizens opposed to the communist regime.

"However, this time - unlike in 1953 - no tanks were launched, no shots were fired. On the contrary, Mikhail Gorbachev addressed the old leadership of the GDR with the phrase 'Life punishes the latecomer'".

"Moreover, he allowed a reunified Germany to become a member of NATO," she recalled.

"I have not forgotten the footage of his meeting with Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the Caucasus in 1990, which made possible the reunification of Germany in peace and freedom," notes Merkel, 68, who was German chancellor from 2005 to the year 2021.

"Let the memory of his historic achievements allow one to pause, especially in these terrible weeks and months of Russia's war against Ukraine," Merkel concluded.


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