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The way I lived my life, I truly wasn't an active resistance fighter.

The way I lived my life, I truly wasn't an active resistance fighter.


Angela Merkel  Angela Merkel
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Angela Dorothea Merkel (/ˈmɜːrkəl, ˈmɛərkəl/, German: [aŋˈɡeːla ˈmɛɐ̯kl̩];[a] née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005. She served as the leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2000 to 2018.[10] Merkel has been widely described as the de facto leader of the European Union,[11] the most powerful woman in the world,[12] and, following the election of Donald Trump as U.S. President, by many commentators as the new leader of the Free World.[13][14][15][16][17]

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It is always the case that when something emerges - which, of course, from the perspective of the former West Germany looks very different - then people say, 'She hasn't told us this yet' and 'She hasn't told us that yet.' I don't know - maybe there are other things I didn't talk about because no one ever asked me.

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Very early, it became clear to me that East Germany could not function.

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I come from a country in which I experienced economic collapse.

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The way I lived my life, I truly wasn't an active resistance fighter.

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I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

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I think it has been a tremendous feat on the part of East Germans since 1990 to adapt to everything changing.

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After the reunification, there was a certain sense of foreignness because daily life in the former East German states was completely turned inside out - everything from the shops to the bureaucracy to the working world.

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Sometimes I can't stop myself from buying things just because I see them - even when I don't really need them.

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