You Can Take the Girl Out of East Germany, but You Can't Take East Germany Out of the Girl
I may be reading too much into this biographical quirk, but at the very least it symbolizes the bizarre psychology that led Merkel to work as hard as she did to ruin a once-great country. Kohl oversaw the end of the Cold War and Germany's reunification, helping transform it into the colossus it became as the most important country in the European Union. It's hard to believe her chancellorship is already five years in the rear-view mirror, since her legacy and policies still dominate European politics.
- ▪I may be reading too much into this biographical quirk, but at the very least it symbolizes the bizarre psychology that led Merkel to work as hard as she did to ruin a once-great country.
- ▪Kohl oversaw the end of the Cold War and Germany's reunification, helping transform it into the colossus it became as the most important country in the European Union.
- ▪It's hard to believe her chancellorship is already five years in the rear-view mirror, since her legacy and policies still dominate European politics.
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| Publication time | Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:25 -0400 |
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You Can Take the Girl Out of East Germany, but You Can't Take East Germany Out of the Girl David Strom 12:00 PM | September 10, 2026 Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany who served 15 years and transformed a high-social-trust society with an economy the envy of Europe into a declining economic and social power riven by crime, social unrest, and seemingly irreversible economic decline, is deeply saddened by the AfD's victory in Saxony-Anhalt.
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