What’s behind eastern Germans’ empathy for Russia?

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  1. >__Old allegiances die hard__

    >Kummer is old enough to remember a time when “for us, NATO and the West was the enemy.” “I didn’t really know any Russians, but I had no contact at all with Americans, British or French people,” he remembers.

  2. This probably should be called Stockholm Syndrome. But now since Sweden wants to join NATO, I would call it Erich Honecker Syndrome.

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