The point is that it hardly matters whether it fit the DDR constitution as hardly anyone wanted to keep that anyway. The Russians retreated from there (IIRC they were paid a hefty sum of money for it), there was no resistance by the population that I'm aware of, quite the contrary in fact, and their representatives, however representative they actually were, voted in favor of it. Their top politicians left/fled the country and the army didn't resist either unless I missed that war entirely.
It's questionable whether anyone could actually have a legitimate complaint given that there were none at the time it happened. Where would complaints come from? From the countries or people who watched it happen or agreed to it at the time?
I mean if another country says it was not agreeable enough as an event the way it happened, then I can probably find an argument for how that country should be disbanded based on its own disagreeable foundation. Most major countries I can think of have "integrated" people or geographical locations in far more violent ways, in the Germany case it was even a re-unification, basically just a return to a status that had previously existed instead of the addition of entirely new territory. Even a banana import restrictions reform leaves more ground for complaints than that.![]()
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