Alexander Rahr
Alexander Rahr
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Gorbachev was literally hated in the 1990s. He was seen as the destroyer of the Soviet Union, the destroyer of everything that generations and generations had built. But much of that was fueled in the '90s, as it played into the hands of Boris Yeltsin, his successor in government.
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The new member states have a completely different view of Russia, understandably. But they, too, have to sooner or later start defining what kind of relationship they want with Russia. This is something Germany has been trying to do since 1945.
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Right now, we have a gas war in Eastern Europe. A politician like him would have to be in the middle of all these quarrels.
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There is mounting anger in Western business circles over the lack of radical liberal reforms and the failure to establish a functioning legal system.