Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
Russian parliament is planning to condemn West Germany for annexing East Germany in 1989.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-east-germany/
Apart from being the raving of an sick imagination, how seriuos are the charges? I mean was there any legal procedure of reunification obsereved (like voting by GDR's parliament or something) or was it assumed by default that all East Germans want to lose their country?
I think it was assumed that everybody wants freedom, democracy and capitalism. Russia got a boatload of money for letting us have it and then we payed more to clean up the mess they left behind. The place is barely civilized by now and one could make a good case that they never deserved democracy.