Germany takes control of Russian Oil Refinery
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The European Union is turning into the Soviet Union to spite Russia.
Planned economy, Socialism, state taking over industry, state dictating prices, etc.
It would be kinda funny if I didn't live there.
I hope all the east Germans can explain to their compatriots what they should look forward to.
I don't think the East Germans are going to ride to the rescue. Comrade Merkel is an East German and she's more responsible than anyone else for the mess Europe is in. They do seem more based further east though, which is surely a result of having a living memory of communism. That's getting less and less potent though. There are now 2 generations who never lived through that nightmare. I hope the older generations can inoculate the younger ones against leftist subversion but I'm not optimistic.
That's scary. I remember when my east German relatives starting contacting and visiting my family. We thought they were all dead. We were mostly right. My grandfather's family is all gone, but my grandmother's family had some stragglers.
When was this? I was stationed in Aschaffenburg, a bit SE from Frankfurt, back in the mid-70s. Fulda Gap area was our section of the East German border.
Notably, the cities were already full of turks selling hashish in the parks.
Spare the rod and spoilt children
I don't think it is to spite Russia. The heads of the EU have been trending in that direction for quite a while now.