Ukraine Separatists Grant Putin's Appeal for Safety Corridor

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18. I'm just watching an interview

unfortunately, it's in German. The guy to the left is Willy Wimmer, a former close advisor of Chancellor Kohl, present during all international conferences the Germans participated in during the late eighties and early nineties. You were probably too young at the time to understand what was going on, but this was the most right-wing government Germany had since the sixties. The interviewer is a young liberal who dropped out of the mainstream media (former up-and-comer in major TV stations).

They are talking about an event commemorating the beginning of the First World War, held by the Left Party, where they participated. The Left Party is led by the former GDR Communists Gregor Gysi and Sarah Wagenknecht who to this very day demand the disintegration of NATO. You'd be surprised on how many things these prominent, intelligent and articulate people from the relatively extreme German Right and the relatively extreme German Left agree these days.