Why Do Anti Westerners Hate Merkel?

Because she stands against the Eastern Roman Empire

Anti Merkel Italian newspaper 

weirdly cited favorably by the supposedly anti-Rome 'The UnHived Mind'

http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2014/10/what-circus-3.html

Merkel is Lutheran, with her paternal family previously being Roman Catholic before converting during the 1920s.

Merkel is acknowledged as 1/4 Polish.

Her maiden name was Kasner, which is the Germanification of Kazmierczak.

Merkel's father was Horst Kasner (1926–2011),^[13][14] a native of Berlin.

Merkel's paternal grandparents were Horst's father Ludwig Kasner, a German national^[16] of Polish origin from Posen/Poznań^,  born 1896, and his German wife Margareta.

Merkel's paternal paternal great-grandparents - the parents of Ludwig Krasner - were Anna Kazmierczak and Ludwig Wojciechowski who were un-married, with Ludwig taking his mother's surname and growing up with her and her later husband Ludwig Rychlicki in Poznan. Thus, Merkel's earlier blood ancestral paternal name was not Kazmierczak but rather Wojciechowski.

Angela Merkel's paternal Grandparents - Margareta and Ludwig Kazmierczak

http://www.dw.de/the-german-chancellors-polish-roots/a-16698783

Merkel's mother was Herlind, born in 1928 in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) as Herlind Jentzsch, a teacher of English and Latin.

Merkel's maternal grandparents were the Danzig politician Willi Jentzsch (born 15 May 1886 in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, died 23 May 1936 in the Free City of Danzig), and his wife, married in Danzig in 1921, Gertrud Alma Drange.

Willi Jentzsch was a German teacher, school administrator and politician.and maternal granddaughter of the city clerk of Elbing (now Elbląg, Poland).  He served as chairman of the Danziger Beamtenbund (Danzig Federation of Civil Servants) and was elected as one of the eleven senators of the Free City of Danzig on 27 October 1926, but resigned on 1 November 1927 for health reasons. On 1 November 1927, he was appointed rector of the renowned Gymnasium St. Johann in Fleischergasse. In March 1936, he became school director in Danzig, and thus head of all elementary schools in the city-state, mere weeks before his death.  Gertrud Alma Drange, if I recall correctly, was of Kushubian-Polish ethnicity.  If so, that makes Merkel more then 1/4 Polish. 

Merkel's maternal paternal great-grandfather, the father of Willi Jentzch, was Wilhelm Jentzsch, a landowner (Gutsbesitzer) who belonged to a prominent family in Bitterfeld-Wolfen.

Merkel's maternal maternal great-grandparents, the parents of Gertrud Alma, were Emil Drange, (born in East Prussia, 18 March 1866, died 8 April 1913 in Elbing), and his wife Emma Wachs (born in Glogau in 1871 and died in 1935).

Emil Drange was a German municipal official who served as the city clerk (Oberstadtsekretär) and deputy mayor of Elbing and thus as one of the top municipal officials of the city.  His father, was a miller born in Lower Silesia, and his mother was a native of the Posen (Poznan) area.^[1]

Merkel is favored by Poles:

http://www.dw.de/the-german-chancellors-polish-roots/a-16698783

The Poles have developed a soft spot for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The reason: According to the largest Polish daily "Gazeta Wyborcza," her grandfather Ludwig Kazmierczak was Polish and is believed to have fought against the Germans as a Polish soldier in 1918.

At the time of the First World War, Poland had been divided and occupied by Germany, Russia, and Austria, and lost its statehood for 123 years. Merkel's grandfather fought to put Poland back on the map.

And also important Polish-Americans:

Chancellor Merkel's strategically tough-minded stance against Putin's anti-European adventurism provides the leadership that Europe needs.- Zbignew Brzezinski

http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2013/11/merkel-ukraine.html

http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2014/01/against-russian-imperialism-for.html

 http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2014/02/brzezinski-on-ukraine.html

http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2014/09/western-eastern-roman-empire-101.html

Western-Eastern Roman Empire 101

- is Eastern Orthodoxy some benign alternative to the [Western] Roman Catholic Church, a sort of form of Protestant Christianity, or is it simply the Eastern form of Roman Catholicism, abet with some different appearing architecture and rituals?  Is it benign and tolerant or hateful and intolerant?

- what do the sources that label Ukraine's post February 22, 2014 pro-western government as "Nazi" have to say about Vladimir Putin and his rule?  Do they also spotlight the political assassinations of human rights activists in Russia during the past decade or so ago.

The Double-Headed Eagle of the Western-Eastern Roman Empire 

brandished on the masthead of 'The UnHived Mind'

- why are web sites that present themselves as anti Rome-anti-Vatican-anti-Jesuit Order particularly The UnHived Mind pumping Vladimir Put-In?

- why are conspiracy blogs as Infowars less pro USA and more pro Vladimir Put-In?  Do they feel that Russia is somehow a superior more tolerant nation that the USA and or its allies such as the United Kingdom, Deutschland and Poland?

http://www.ibtimes.com/russia-fires-nuclear-missile-hits-target-3500-miles-away-1684390

Russia successfully tested its latest Bulava intercontinental nuclear missile Wednesday amid rising tensions with NATO over the conflict in Ukraine. The nearly 37-ton missile was launched from Russia’s new submarine, the Vladimir Monomakh, as part of its sea trials. Deputy Defense Minister Yuriy Borisov said a total of five test launches are planned.

Vladimir Monomakh, named after a medieval prince, fired the inter-continental ballistic missile from the White Sea near Russia’s border with Finland and hit its target nearly 3,500 miles away on the Kamchatka peninsula north of Japan. The Russian Navy's head, Adm. Viktor Chirkov, was aboard the Vladimir Monomakh for the launch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_II_Monomakh

Vladimir II Monomakh (Old East Slavic: Володимиръ (-мѣръ) Мономахъ, Volodimir Monomakh; Christian name Vasiliy, or Basileios) (1053 – 19 May 1125) was a Velikiy Kniaz (Grand Prince) of Kievan Rus'.

He was the son of Vsevolod I (married in 1046) and Anastasia of the Eastern Roman Empire (d. 1067) which is now called the Byzantine Empire. Anastasia is believed to be related to the family of the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX Monomachos, from whom Vladimir obtained his surname. Contemporary Byzantine naming practice allowed the adoption of a maternal surname if the mother's family was perceived to be of a more exalted origin than that of the father.^[1]

Eupraxia of Kiev, a half-sister of Vladimir, became notorious all over Europe for her divorce from the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV on the grounds that he had attempted a black mass on her naked body.

Vladimir Putin August 26, 2014

Vladimir II

A basic '101' on the Western and Eastern Roman Empire represented on all those flags we see from Russia and elsewhere featuring the DOUBLE-HEADED EAGLE

330 AD- Roman Catholic Church is established in Rome, officially adopting Christianity yet clearly based upon the already established Roman universal (satanic pagan) church, with clever omissions and additions designed to ferment a fearful obedience.

880 Moscovite invasion of the Kiev of the East Polans- subsequently re-named "Kievan Rus"

988 Moscovite 'Kieven Rus' Ruler Wladimir I Sucks up to Byzantium, effectively creating Rus Orthodoxy (Eastern Catholicism)

1054 Great Schism- this effectively partitions Poland' keeping that nation-state west of the Great Schism Line, while the lands of the East Poles (Eastern Poland) are re-named 'Kievan Rus'

1240s Mongols Smash Kievan Rus, make it westward to Western Silesia

1300s- Lithuania fills the power vacuum in vanquished "Kievan Rus" - and soon joins with Poland to create the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

1517 Martin Luther's 95 Thesis

1525 1st Lutheran State in East Prussia

1572  French bow to Rome St. Bartholomew Day's Massacre

1573 Poland passes Warsaw Confederation Against St Bartholomew Day's Massacre

 "This country became a place of shelter for heretics” - Cardinal Hozjusz papal legate to Poland

late 1500s- Rome's recently created Jesuit Order seeks strategies to deal with expanding Rome's hegemony eastward

Late 1574-Early 1600s Vatican Proposal that Poland merges with Russia

1596 Uniate 'Greek Catholic' creation

1613 Russia's 2nd dynasty Romonov Dynasty established, succeeding the  Rurik Dynasty that had been established cir 862.

1650s Eastern Rome begins to take Eastern Poland (Ukraine) via the Khmelnytsky Rebellion via a pro-Moscovite Jesuit educated leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

Enlightened Poles seek to create the Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth by the Treaty of Hadiach which would abolish the Roman Uniate Church- is strongly opposed by Rome AND Moscow and is alas thwarted

1772-1795- Polish Commonwealth erased by Russia, Prussia and Austria..

1850- by this time Rome has decided upon a future war against Prussia-Northeastern Germany; subsequent creation of Protestant Lutheran-Pietist 2nd Reich Deutschland under Otto von Bismark, conflict with the Papacy via Cardinal Mieczyslaw Ledochowski and the revenge planning against Germany and the planned counter reformation against ‘heretical’ Germany and Poland, with the latter’s westward shift and the creation of the modern‘Ukrainian’ movement redefining the traditional East Poles-Ruthenians against Poland and favoring Moscow.

1906- Mieczyslaw Ledochowski’s nephew Wlodimir Ledochowski sets up European alliance system to engineer WW1 with Protestant United Kingdom allied against Germany and with France, which is allied with ‘Orthodox’ Russia.

Reemergence of Poland

1919 Polish Nationalist Joseph Pilsudski betrayed by political opponents loyal to Rome from western Poland primarily in the former Posen Provinz Poznan betray the drive to reunite westerly and east Poland (now re-oriented as ‘Ukraine’).

 http://www.day.kiev.ua/en/article/topic-day/pilsudski-petliura

“This does not mean, however, that he enjoyed the nation’s love and understanding. There were a lot of communities and entire regions (in particular, those of Poznan and Pomorze) where Pilsudski had virtually no political support. This naturally created numerous problems both for Poland and Ukraine.

“There is one very interesting letter written by Pilsudski to General Sosnowski in the early May of 1920. In this letter he complained that the Poznan regiments, moving across Ukraine, will not understand that they were on allied territory, and rob everyone on their way and he, the commander in chief, could do nothing to stop them. He was indignant that some men’s dishonorable and stupid behavior was ruining the entire Polish-Ukrainian concept.

Pilsudski, who sought to re-unify the western and eastern portions of Poland across the great schism line, had these efforts continuously betrayed by the papist loyalists of the political movement of Roman Dmowski, who was a vicious hater of Jewish people and who sought to alienate the Ruthenian-East Polans ('Ukrainians') in conformity with the long term strategic aims of the Western-Eastern Roman Empire via his Endecja 'National Democrat' political organization.

Such a pattern of betrayal was emulated with some of the forces under Pilsudski ally Symon Petliura during the 1920 Polish - Soviet War/Polish liberation of Kiev.  Such forces engaged in anti-Jewish pogroms contrary to Petliura's commands:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symon_Petliura

Anti-Jewish pogroms accompanied the Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing Russian Civil War. The Ukrainian state promised Jews full equality and autonomy, and Arnold Margolin, a Jewish minister in Petliura's government, declared in May 1919 that the Ukrainian government had given Jews more rights than they enjoyed in any other European government.^[12] However, Petliura lost control over most of his armed forces, who then engaged in killing Jews. During Petliura's term as Head of State (1919–20), pogroms continued to be perpetrated on Ukrainian ethnic territory, and the number of Jews killed during the period is estimated to be from 35,000 to 50,000....

Historians have pointed out that Petliura himself never demonstrated any personal antisemitism, and it is documented that he actively sought to halt anti-Jewish violence on numerous occasions, introducing capital punishment for the crime of pogroming.^[17][18] Taras Hunczak of Rutgers University writes that "to convict Petliura for the tragedy that befell Ukrainian Jewry is to condemn an innocent man and to distort the record of Ukrainian-Jewish relations".^[19][20]

Because the Soviet Union saw Petliura and Ukrainian nationalism as a threat, it was in its interest to tarnish his reputation. A propaganda campaign to this end included accusations of anti-Jewish crimes.^[21] Hunczak insists that "Petliura's own personal convictions render such responsibility highly unlikely, and all the documentary evidence indicates that he consistently made efforts to stem pogrom activity by UNR troops."^[22]

 Pilsudski and Petliura 1920

WW2- extended to ensure deep penetration first eastward to destroy surplus populations then westward to destroy Warsaw, and then Eastern Germany is erased from the map, with Poland tremendously reduced and pushed westward as per design.

2017 'Greek Catholic' Rus- via a Roman Catholic Uniate Romanov Restoration!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbiaJcTotos

See video at 30:30+ for discussion of future Roman Catholic Russian Czar

http://garabandalnews.overblog.com/the-great-miracle-the-church-great-event

http://www.russiansunrise.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3:cfn&catid=5:catholic-family-news&Itemid=8

By Luke Wilson

Fiction as a teaching tool has a venerable history harking back to the parables of Our Lord, and even to the prophets of the Old Testament. Future fiction entails certain risks, since it has to be based on educated guesses about what will happen. While it is understood that many details of any novel set in the future will prove to be incorrect, the timeless truths taught by the story may remain relevant and worthwhile even long after the previously-future date has been passed. Well-known examples of such novels include George Orwell’s 1984, and Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson’s Lord of the World.

     Russian Sunrise takes place between the years 2015 and 2017 A.D., and is based upon the outline of future history provided by Our Lady of Fatima: the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in union with all the Catholic bishops of the world; but he will do it late. In the end, the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph, Russia will be converted, and the world will be granted a period of peace. The novel argues that the conversion of a nation, as promised by Our Lady, can only mean that the nation becomes Catholic. The rather sudden conversion of the vast majority of individual souls in Russia would be a spectacular public miracle -- so great that the world could neither miss nor deny the obvious connection between a recent public papal consecration of Russia, and the unprecedented religious revival that soon followed.

Those who grew up during the Cold War era have long been accustomed to think of the United States of America as the world’s protector, and of Russia as the enemy. Russian Sunrise attempts to explore a different, Catholic perspective: that Russia has been heaven’s chosen vessel for the chastisement of the world, by spreading her errors and persecutions of the Church, for as long as the Holy Fathers continue to delay exact obedience in performing the requested consecration. But in the end, Russia is to become heaven’s chosen vessel of peace for the world, as the modern world’s first powerful Catholic Confessional State. The corrupt monetary and banking systems of secular America are seen as the cause of the Global Financial Crisis. In contrast, future-Catholic Russia’s return to the Social Kingship of Christ provides the world with a new example of distributive justice and cultural cohesion. Interestingly, the modern secular humanist state religion of ‘democracy’ is challenged by converted Russia’s voluntary return to autocratic Catholic monarchy at the national level, thereby keeping local democracy free from corruption by moneyed interests. Reinstatement of a precious metals monetary standard ensures economic justice for all, and together with hereditary Christian monarchy spells an end to “government of, by, and for big money.”

      In Russian Sunrise, it is converted top Russian leaders who privately plead with the fictional Pope Nicholas VI to please consecrate their nation in obedience to Our Lady of Fatima. Grace -- obtained through multi-million rosary campaigns by traditional Catholics -- has changed the leaders’ hearts to see that there is no hope for Russia, or for the world, except through papal obedience to heaven. To escape the “spiritual wickedness in high places” that infests the Vatican, Pope Nicholas goes on a sudden secret retreat to the tradition-oriented Fatima “Cova” parish in inner-city Detroit. Father Kiril Romanov, the Cova’s pastor, is a solidly-orthodox Catholic priest and a talented musician who keeps the classics of great polyphonic Catholic music alive in the context of a weekly high Tridentine mass. Father Kiril’s older brother, bachelor Mikhail Romanov, is also a talented musician, a Professor of Medicine, and a decorated war hero. And, through miracles of Divine Providence, Mikhail is the legitimate crown prince of Russia, born expatriate of uncompromised Russian royal lineage in the United States. Mikhail enters into a chaste romance with Mariya Peterson, a young music prodigy from the Cova parish, who has recently learned she and her parents are also of Russian royal descent. Prince Mikhail and Princess Mariya appear together on the world stage at the Romanov Nobility ball in New York City, on the very evening before the Pope and all obedient Catholic bishops are to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Soon, Russia is converted, clamors to restore her monarchy, and through a referendum calls upon Mikhail to ascend the Romanov throne as the new Tsar of Catholic Russia. A Ministry of Catholic Social Reorganization is established, working to re-structure Russian society from top to bottom, to bring it into conformity with the social teaching of Christ and His Church. As just monetary and economic policies are implemented, dark and powerful forces become enraged, and plot to undermine the new freedoms for the common man and for large families, which are “dangerously” on display in Russia. But other nations begin to stir, wanting to emulate the blessings demonstrated by the new Catholic Confessional state.

     The author, Bruce W. Walters M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist and former columnist for The Latin Mass magazine. He sings tenor in the Latin Mass Choir at Assumption Grotto Church in Detroit, and is a former parish organist and organ-builder: Russian Sunrise contains extensive imagery of organs and classical music. During his lecture in Rome at the recent Consecration Now! conference on Fatima, Dr. Walters asserted that, while much emphasis has been placed on the chastisements threatened if Our Lady of Fatima is not obeyed soon, it is also important to contemplate what wonderful blessings could follow for Russia -- and for the whole world -- after the pope and bishops do finally obey Our Lady by performing the consecration of Russia precisely as requested.

Russian Sunrise is a creative and unusual approach to proclaiming the full truth about Fatima. It is a well-written, captivating, and uplifting story, packed with detailed information about Catholic social teaching, the Orthodox Church, classical music, economics, the Global Financial Crisis, and Russian history. The novel seems designed to reach a much wider audience than just traditional Catholics already convinced of the urgency of the message of Fatima. Russian Sunrise may be an important new tool to spread the full message of Fatima, to inform good minds previously confused by the “Vatican party line,” and to enkindle renewed zeal for the Consecration of Russia in good hearts previously stifled by “false obedience.” A copy for oneself, and a few extra copies to pass along to friends, is to be recommended.

Incidentally, the name of Vladimir means "great ruler"? Kievan "Rus" ruler, Vladimir Great, therefore, entered into an alliance with the Byzantine Empire and created the Russian Orthodox Church.

Then we have Vladimir II  (1053 – 19 May 1125) - a Velikiy Kniaz (Grand Prince) of Kievan Rus'.

Then we have Wlodimir (Vladimir) Ledochowski who perfected the evil squeeze of WW1 and particularly WW2 upon north-eastern Germany and Poland - born October 7, 1866, died December 13, 1942, days after the war battle-lines turned against Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad.

Then, whether Russia will soon becoming the new Catholic ruler, Vladimir Romanov, or "roman a great ruler."

Ironically, Putin and Ledochowski, happened to be born on the same day, October 7, with Putin born exactly 14 years before the 100th anniversary of Ledochowski's birth.

 http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2014/06/born-october-7-1866-1952.html

 http://buchela.blogspot.com/2014/05/vladimir-putin-wladimir-ledochowsky.html

Also see:

http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.it/2014/06/jesuitical-masonry-in-russia-and.html

http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com/2014/09/bridges-east.html

2 Blogs I highly Recommend:

http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.com/

Jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com

The Reincarnation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth & Eastern Germany

http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2014/01/2014-europe.html

http://www.electricpolitics.com/media/mp3/EP2014.02.24.mp3

Also at http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2014/02/we-interrupt-ukraine-news-with-some.html

Very interesting interview.

George Kenney interviews Russian scholar Stephen F Cohen about Ukraine

See it especially at 17:00-22:00 and 35:00-42:00

Suggests allowing Kiev-Ukraine to join as a junior partner with Lithuania and Poland, in order to preserve Russian oriented southern and eastern areas of Ukraine for Russia.  Lithuania and Poland are here identified as the two countries at the forefront of pushing EU regime change in Ukraine, with the support of Germany.

19:10  They would as you say draw a red line on say Sevastopol, and so for Washington to think they we can wrest these territories from Russian orbit is extremely dangerous, and its not going to happen.

And its not going to happen.

Russia is not going to let eastern Ukraine go.

Actually, If Putin asked my opinion

If I were a patriotic Russian citizen instead of a patriotic American citizen as I am

I would say to Putin what do you want western Ukraine for anyway its nothing but trouble? I they want to go and be a junior poor partner with Lithuania and Poland and oh by the way it is Poland and Lithuania that have been driving this EU march on Ukraine, let them go. They are not Russian … western Ukraine was part of the polish empire, part of the Austrian empire; it has few affinities with Russia, whereas eastern Ukraine is Russian essentially. Let them go. And what do you get? You get the most populous part of Ukraine, that’s eastern and southern Ukraine. You preserve your naval base. … you won’t have the basket-case of western Ukraine

Mentions 'sidebar' story of Germany to become more assertive, with the need for Polish compensation to the east.

36:20 You mentioned Poland and Lithuania pushing for some change in Ukraine… What is your sense of the German role in all of this?

Well that’s the sidebar story but an important one. I can’t claim expertise on it but I looked into it asked people, and it appears to have this pre-history. Poland is very nervous about Germany’s growing role in Europe. So Poland wanted some empire of its own, like it …[once had]. It wanted Ukraine … to offset German economic and political influence. Meanwhile Germans has been talking about a more assertive foreign policy- taking more leadership. Now you got to remember that the wounds of WW2 are not completely healed; so when you tell a Polish citizen of a certain generation that Germany’s going to get more assertive, they get a little worried. So they wanted to enhance their sphere of influence economically and politically, and Poland was the ticket.

Ghosts of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth
http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2013/12/ukraine-split-ghosts-of-polish.html

Gorbachev Offered Riga Line to Poland & 'Kalingrad Oblast' to Germany in 1990

'Riga Line' the pre-WW2 Polish eastern border with the U.S.S.R.
mutually agreed upon March 18, 1921;
plus 'Kalingrad Oblast' Sold to Germany for 48 Billion DM

Found this on a facebook page

In 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev suggested meeting in Moscow G-Dragon, the return of the Eastern Lands in two versions.

First: the return of Vilnius, Lviv and Kremenets;
 
The second arrondissement of Grodno from the wilderness Belovezhskaya Pushcha and the former province. The Lviv Centre for petroleum. The reason for this proposal was the cancellation of the jałtańskich agreements and mutual waiver of claims for compensation.
 
Soon, Jaruzelski has adopted proposals for Gorbachev on behalf of Polish. When the case came to Warsaw, Mr Geremek, Michnik, Kuroń and Mazowiecki went in haste to Moscow and almost kneel wybłagali Gorbachev not to do. What kind of influence they used no one knows, in the end, 

Gorbachev przystal on their requests. Consul General in Krakow, p. Serdaczuk was talking about in the presence of Prof. Edward Prus. Also confirmed is the Member of Lithuania to the USSR Jan Ciechanowicz in an interview with Stanislaw Sadowskim from Toronto. It also said the New York press. It was published in the National No 4 (2) (2006).

 Apparently the same Gorbachev did with Kohl by Wrocław and Szczecin during talks about zjednoczenkiu Germany, but Kohl said he would wait for the traffic to the poles. Source: Helmut Kohl said a German journalist Dieter Shmitzke on June 1, 2005 and published in the newspaper "Bayerische Fulle" Nr. 2.

As for 'Kalingrad Oblast' - the northern portion of pre-1945 German East Prussia:

see page 12 at http://www.russian-lawyer.co.uk/Kaliningrad_Integration.pdf

Seemingly, the Society of East Prussia expects a change in the status of Kaliningrad to occur sooner or later. In his address to the 2000 national meeting of the Eastern Prussians, the speaker of the SEP, Wilhelm von Gottberg, pointed out that it will be impossible to preserve the present status of the “Königsberg region” permanently. He gave expression to his hope that someone will take a chance to change its status and that the opportunity will not be lost, as was the case when Gorbachev offered to sell Kaliningrad to Germany and the German government rejected the offer.
17

In his later interview “The Königsberg region and its perspectives”18 he even mentioned a concrete purchase price estimated of 48 billion DM. Kohl and Genscher rejected the offer and the major Genscher reason was that he did not want to have “Königsberg as a gift”.

If I recall correctly, I have seen an account of this with Kohl turning down the offer as if it were premature, with words to the effect of East Prussia having to return to Germany under the proper set of circumstances, as if already predetermined.

 

Brzezinski On Ukraine

Says Russia should have Yanukovitch resign and Germany should put up some money

From Deutsche World:

http://www.dw.de/brzezinski-finland-role-model-for-ukraine/a-17448110

DW: The situation in Ukraine is very volatile and has gotten increasingly violent over the last few days. Do you fear an outright civil war in the country?

Zbigniew Brzezinski: I think that is in fact threatening Ukraine. But I still am of the view that this issue can be resolved by compromise provided that the there is a firm stance by the West, provided that Yanukovych is willing to negotiate in good faith and provided that Putin realizes that it's in Russia's long-term interest to have this issue resolved by compromise. I am not sure that all three of these three conditions can be met and it increasingly appears that Yanukovych is altogether unreliable.

What do you make of Yanukovych'srole in this crisis so far? Do you think he can remain in office?
I think it's increasingly doubtful. In the beginning one might have considered some arrangement that would involve him staying in as president for at least a while until the situation settles down and genuinely democratic elections for a president with fewer powers can be held. He appears to be either cowardly or indecisive or deceitful.

Couldn't he simply alleviate the situation by stepping down now?

That would certainly be helpful. But I imagine that he is not only concerned about his position as president, but also about the personal wealth that he has acquired while in office and his son has also acquired since Yanukovych became president.

The West, that is the US and the EU, has been divided over how to deal with the situation in Ukraine. What is your sense of the West's actions so far?

So far it has not been very impressive. It was slow to react to the sudden change in Yanukovych's stance several months ago. It then didn't step forward with any specific and immediate proposals to deal with the deepening socio-economic crisis in the country. Only in the last week or so has it generated a more visible engagement. And I think the West is now increasingly conscious of the fact that it has to have a meaningful financial package as well as a clearly defined set of political objectives that give Ukraine the opportunity to remain a good neighbor to Russia, but at the same time expand its relationship with Europe; and that America itself can reassure Russia that a Ukraine that has freedom of movement towards Europe does not mean a Ukraine that becomes part of coalition that threatens Russia's interests; and last but not least, that if Russia is not prepared to accept this it will find itself confronted in all probability by an increasingly hostile, bitter and perhaps altogether explosive Ukraine.

There has been a lot of talk about sanctions against Ukraine and the EU has just now agreed on sanctions against those responsible for the escalation of violence. Are you for or against sanctions against Ukraine?
 
I am neither for nor against sanctions by which I mean I would not make sanctions the principle tool of our policy which I have outlined in answering your last question. But I would not avoid applying sanctions against particular individuals who have financially benefitted from access to the West, but who are playing a negative role both in Ukraine and in Russia.

Let's talk about the West a bit more. Has the Obama administration done enough in this crisis in your opinion?

It has been very slow, but it is doing much more now. It is becoming very seriously engaged. The United States has to be engaged indirectly in the negotiations between the EU and the Ukraine and much more directly on a bilateral basis in discussing the issue with the Russians, although the EU may wish to be engaged in these discussions as well. But to the Russians in the long run a stable relationship with America which doesn't slide into an increasing cold war negativism is of direct interest, as it should be to us as well. Putin should be mindful of the fact that his support for Yanukovych - whom the Russian press increasingly describes as a totally unreliable crook - is not in Russia's long-term interest because he is going to create in Ukraine a widespread anti-Russian sentiment, maybe not among all, but certainly among the majority of Ukrainians. And that is not in Russia's interest.

Do you hope that Russia and Mr. Putin press Yanukovych to step down?

I think that would be a very healthy contribution and that would enable Putin, indirectly of course, to influence who would replace him. Not all of the oppositionists - probably at this stage most of the responsible oppositionists are not anti-Russian. But these events, clearly occurring under Russia's protection, are likely to turn the Ukrainians into very intensely anti-Russian nationalists.

What then do you see as the role of the EU, whose lack of engagement has been criticized very vocally recently by the US?

I am glad that the EU is actively involved and that prominent foreign ministers of some leading EU countries are in fact right now in Kyiv. But the bottom line is - and this is particularly pertinent to Germany - if the EU is to be serious it has to put up some money. It's very easy to talk about democracy and long-term cooperation, but the fact is that money is also needed right now to stabilize Ukraine. But let me emphasize my key point. If we want a solution that's constructive it has to be based on compromise. And I can envisage Ukraine evolving in the context of a constructive compromise into a country whose domestic and foreign policies will be somewhat similar to that of Finland.

You mentioned Germany's role in the Ukraine crisis. What do you make of Berlin's stance so far?
I think it's good that Germany is involved, but I think that Germans have to take the lead in an area which they resent having to do so - which is putting up some money. You cannot have a compromise for the present problem that is acceptable and constructive and which is good for the West as well as for Russia without some serious financial involvement by the EU. And the fact is that Germany is the most prosperous and economically most successful member of the EU.

Zbigniew Brzezinski served as National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 and is regarded as one of the preeminent US foreign policy scholars. He is currently professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins University and a counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC.

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Vladimir Putin - born October 7, 1952

Editorial

Vladimir Putin Clings to the Past

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Published: November 19, 2013 76 Comments

The former republics of the Soviet Union have been sovereign, independent countries for almost 22 years, free to develop economic and political relations with any foreign nation or trading bloc they choose. That point appears to have eluded President Vladimir Putin of Russia, who is doing everything he can to prevent these countries from developing closer ties with Europe — even threatening to cut off the gas that one country needs to get through the winter.

“The Cold War should be over for everyone,” Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said this week. Not, it appears, for Mr. Putin. 

Next week, six former republics — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine — are scheduled to meet with leaders of the European Union in Vilnius, Lithuania, to discuss enhanced economic, political and diplomatic ties with the union. In 2004, Lithuania, along with Estonia and Latvia, became the first former Soviet republics to join the union. 

To qualify for stronger ties, the six nations will have to demonstrate progress on democratic and judicial reforms required by the European Union. That may prove difficult for some, like Ukraine, which has, so far, refused to allow its imprisoned former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, to travel to Germany for medical treatment. 

Europe’s use of trade leverage to encourage democracy is constructive and reasonable. Russia’s attempts to bludgeon former vassals into continued economic dependence are not. The European Union offers something real and attractive. Russia, which wants them to join the customs union it has formed with Belarus and Kazakhstan, offers threats. 

In September, a Russian deputy prime minister warned Moldova that it might lose access to gas this winter should it strengthen links with Europe. Then it banned imports of Moldovan wine. Next came threats to expel tens of thousands of Moldovans working in Russia. Yet, far from backing down, Moldovan leaders have continued negotiations with Europe and are now working to reduce the country’s economic dependence on Russia. 

Moscow’s bullying has had more success in Armenia, which counts on Russian support in its territorial dispute with Azerbaijan, and has agreed to join the customs union. Even Lithuania, already a member of the union, has been subjected to trade harassment, presumably in retaliation for hosting next week’s Vilnius meeting. 

Similarly, Russia has threatened to slow Ukrainian imports with exacting customs inspections, although the main obstacles to stronger Ukrainian ties with the union involve domestic politics. In any case, Ukraine, which is economically robust, is perfectly entitled to choose its own course, as are the other former Soviet republics. 

In the waning years of the Soviet Union, its last president, Mikhail Gorbachev, talked optimistically about a post-Cold War Europe stretching undivided from the Atlantic to the Urals. Mr. Putin, however, seems to long for a return to the days when an iron curtain divided the Continent, darkening the horizons of the satellites and Soviet republics to the east — nations that now seek the enjoy more fully the fruits of independence. 

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 BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded on Monday that Russia allow its onetime subjects — particularly in Ukraine — to exercise the sovereign right to make alliances as they choos.

“The Cold War should be over for everyone,” Ms. Merkel said, making her first speech to the German Parliament since winning the general election in September. 

Ms. Merkel devoted the bulk of her 15-minute address to throwing Berlin’s considerable political and economic weight behind the European Union’s efforts to forge closer partnerships with six former Soviet republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. 

Those nations have been invited to sign association agreements at a two-day meeting that opens Nov. 28 in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, one of three former Soviet republics that joined the European Union in 2004.

 

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Ukraine, by far the biggest of the countries invited, has become the object of an East-West tug of war. European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels made clear on Monday that responsibility for Ukraine’s fate lay with its president, Viktor F. Yanukovich, an ally of Moscow who has nonetheless said he wants his country to be closer to Europe. 

Last week, though, the Ukrainian Parliament postponed consideration of a bill to allow the imprisoned former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, to leave the country for medical treatment in Germany. The European Union wants the bill to be passed before it declares that Ukraine has met the conditions for entering an enhanced partnership. Diplomats widely see Tuesday as the deadline for the Ukrainian Parliament to act. 

Ms. Merkel and the lawmakers from all parties who followed her to the lectern on Monday emphasized that the proposed agreements with former Soviet republics are “not directed against Russia” and could help Russia integrate with Europe, as the chancellor declared. 

Moldova, Europe’s poorest country, and Georgia, which recently underwent a peaceful transition of power, are sure to sign agreements at the Vilnius meeting, Ms. Merkel said. She lauded the Moldovans, in particular, for ignoring a Russian boycott of its wine exports, the country’s most important source of foreign exchange. 

Armenia, on the other hand, has succumbed to Russian pressure, including a threatened cutoff of energy supplies, and will now join a customs union led by Russia that includes Belarus and Kazakhstan, Ms. Merkel said. 

Ukraine is a cliffhanger, the chancellor said: “It is not yet clear whether Ukraine is willing to create the conditions” to sign the association agreement with the European Union, which would open up trade and other economic benefits and make travel to Western Europe easier. 

The debate over the union’s Eastern Partnership program in the German Parliament was followed by a lively discussion of the recent accusations that Germany’s most important ally, the United States, eavesdropped on millions of Germans, including the chancellor. 

Ms. Merkel, displaying barely a trace of the anger that she voiced when the monitoring of her cellphone became known, seemed intent on tamping down the hard feelings that have developed over the affair. Still, she insisted that the United States had work to do to restore the confidence needed, for example, to negotiate a free trade accord with the European Union. 

The spying accusations “are grave,” the chancellor said. “They must be cleared up. And, more important still: for the future, we must build new trust.”

In the debate, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a former foreign minister and member of the Social Democrats, with whom Ms. Merkel is now negotiating a new coalition government, said there was more to the matter than merely the discovery that the United States had spied on Germany.

“People sense that this is not a one-time oversight,” Mr. Steinmeier told the Parliament. “People sense that this is about a very basic question. This is about which moral and political guidelines do we need in this modern, digital 21st century?” 

Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, has disclosed information about the agency’s surveillance operations to various publications — in Germany, primarily to the news weekly Der Spiegel. Several prominent politicians and intellectuals on the left have demanded that Mr. Snowden, who now has temporary asylum in Russia, be given shelter in Germany and be allowed to answer questions before a full-fledged parliamentary inquiry. 

The chancellor’s conservative bloc and the Social Democrats used their combined majority on Monday to reject opposition calls for an inquiry. Still, such an inquiry could be established after Ms. Merkel is sworn in as head of a new government, which is expected to happen on Dec. 17.

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