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In the late 1980s, Putin lived in Dresden, East Germany. On paper, he ran a Soviet-German “friendship house.” In practice, he was a KGB agent, likely helping the Red Army Faction, a...
- Anne Applebaum Interviews Peter Strzok
The former FBI agent Peter Strzok worries that Americans...
- Dominic Tierney
How Putin Got Into America’s Mind. He learned the art of...
- Anne Applebaum Interviews Peter Strzok
15. Juni 2023 · Russian President Vladimir Putin's KGB years in East Germany offer a window into his crackdown on protests, war on Ukraine and yearning for empire.
- laura.king@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
17. Sept. 2023 · The Russian president has exerted influence over East German attitudes toward Russia since he arrived in Dresden, Saxony’s regional capital, on his first posting as a young KGB agent in the...
27. März 2015 · Anyone who wants to understand Vladimir Putin today needs to know the story of what happened to him on a dramatic night in East Germany a quarter of a century ago. It is 5 December 1989 in...
- Strange Bedfellows
- Old Allegiances Die Hard
- Economic Ties
That's also Weisskopf's rationale for hosting the event, which he's at pains to make as uncontroversial as possible. "Maybe I'm naïve, but for me, Russia is part of Europe, as Ukraine is too, and I believe that long-term peace is only possible if you communicate at a human level," Weisskopf told DW. Still, it's a little odd that, of all the main Ge...
Kummer is old enough to remember a time when "for us, NATOand the West was the enemy." "I didn't really know any Russians, but I had no contact at all with Americans, British or French people," he remembers. East Germans' residual suspicion of the West and sympathy for Russia are visible in plenty of surveys, especially those that date from before ...
Less emotional are the economic ties that still bind eastern Germany closer to Russia rather than the West. Thirty-two years after reunification, there are still no DAX-listed German corporations headquartered in eastern Germany, but there are major economic operations that depend on Russian trade, such as the Nord Stream pipelineon the Baltic coas...
6. Juni 2023 · Prior to Mr. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, half of eastern Germans wanted closer ties to Russia, compared with only a quarter of their western German counterparts, according to a 2021 study.
7. Juni 2023 · The literature is full of speculation about Hollywood-like special missions in which Putin is alleged to have been involved: a secret operation to overthrow the East German government; the...
