The State Duma is asked to prepare an application for annexation of East Germany West Germany – Ekho Moskvy radio station

The State Duma is asked to prepare an application for annexation of East Germany West Germany – Ekho Moskvy radio station

 So parliamentarians have responded to criticism of PACE.

 The initiative was made by MP from the Communist Party, Nikolai Ivanov. He said that “all empathized” Speaker of the lower house, Sergei Naryshkin, who in Strasbourg had to “repel attacks” PACE President Anne Brasseur, accuses Russia of annexation of the Crimea. “I suggest that as a retaliatory step to instruct the Committee on Foreign Affairs to prepare a statement condemning the annexation of the German Democratic Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany in 1989. The more so because, in contrast to the Crimea, in the GDR national referendum was not carried out “- leads TASS Ivanov said. As a result, Sergei Naryshkin directed the Committee on Foreign Affairs to consider the advisability of preparing a declaration of the State Duma of the annexation of the GDR by West Germany. First deputy chairman of the committee Svetlana Zhurova already stated that parliamentarians are willing to promptly look into this matter. In an interview wit h Interfax, she stressed that it is not a statement, but how to know whether you want to develop such a document. Author initiatives Communist Nikolai Ivanov believes that the preparation of such a statement, “It is not a momentary” but “can not remain silent».

 January 25 in Strasbourg, Sergei Naryshkin said that “the reunification of the Crimea with Russia was carried out based on the result of the democratic procedure – the referendum, when 97% of the population of Crimea clearly in favor of reunification with their homeland.” “If we follow the logic of those who call this historic event annexation, then just as easily to the authors of this logic we can say that the Federal Republic of Germany annexed eastern Germany or the German Democratic Republic”, – said the speaker. At the same time, he noted that this logic does not support.

 Earlier Naryshkin has already spoken with initiatives to revise the historical events. In December 2014, he offered to give a legal assessment of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. State Duma Speaker said that crimes against humanity have no statute of limitations.

 Merger agreement GDR and the FRG was signed August 31, 1990.

 
 In the GDR really was no referendum on accession to the FRG, but people just by their actions showed how much they want reunification, recalls in our live author of the famous graffiti “Brotherly Kiss” Dmitry Vrubel.

 
 Officially, the GDR and West Berlin became part of Germany.

 
 The question of recognition of the annexation of the GDR in response to statements about the annexation of the Crimea West look for some ridiculous move by Russia, said the first vice-president of the Center for Political Technologies, Alexei Makarkin. In his opinion, Russia can now raise the question of revision of any documents, but the real situation is not affected.

 
 Makrkin added that after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of the two Germanys in the Soviet Union, many were convinced that this is a short time, that soon everything will return to their seats. But it took 25 years, and the German Democratic Republic is not only restored, but it is a part of West Germany became a part of NATO. Hence the resentment, said the analyst.