Senior German Christian Democrat: It's A Collapse Of the System

Lothar De Maiziere, the Prime Minister of the first freely elected East German parliament, who governed only for six months before German reunification in October 1990, surprised a press conference in Munich this afternoon, by echoing what until now had only been stated publicly by Helga Zepp-LaRouche (The Lost Chance of 1989).

Speaking about the agenda of next week's Munich session of the German-Russian Petersburg Dialogue forum, De Maiziere said that the difference between eastern and western Germans is that the easterners view the present global economic-financial crisis as a crisis of the system, whereas the westerners still view it as only a crisis like many before, within the system. De Maiziere explained that, having gone through the collapse of the bankrupt socialist system in 1989, eastern Germans feel that what they are watching happen today, is something they know from 20 years ago.