More than three decades after the fall of the Wall, Chancellor Scholz considers German unity to be far from perfect. But given the initial situation at the time, we had made a lot of progress.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz sees German unity as advanced, but still far from perfect, more than three decades after the fall of the Wall. “I’m not revealing any secret here: German unity is of course not complete in this sense, even after 34 years,” said the SPD politician at the ceremony for German Unity Day in Schwerin. However, if you remember the initial situation at the time, “we have still made a lot of progress.”
After all, there is not a single comparable country in the world that has faced a similar challenge to Germany in the past decades: “namely, the challenge of bringing together two sub-societies that have been divided over four decades and are organized in completely different ways – economically, politically, culturally and mentally .”
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Source: Stern
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