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To: sciAticA errAticA who wrote (62448)	6/1/2006 1:23:55 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 110194

Astana where Iran deal is being done. Message 22504213

To: sciAticA errAticA who wrote (62448)	6/1/2006 1:30:16 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 110194

Just experience from past: Take Berlin wall collapse: Written en 80's: "It is hard to believe that Germany’s reunification is the spontaneous falling of the Berlin Wall the popular press shows. The reunification of Germany isn’t that spontaneous breaking of the wall, rejoice, fire works and so on, it appears to be a careful planned strategy of the West Germans colluded with East Germans and the Soviet Union. East Germany staved off economic collapse in 1983 only with the help of a large loan from West Germany. “It was a question of to be or not to be for East Germany,’ said Alexander Schalk-Golodkowski, who negotiated the one billion DM ($669 million) credit with Bonn. Mr. Schalk-Golodkowski, who ran a secretive import-export empire earning DM2.5 billion a year for Communist leader Erich Honecker’s regime, said the loan re-established East Germany’s credit worthiness....The credit was negotiated with the help of right-wing Bavarian premier Franz Joseph Strauss. Mr. Schalk-Golodkowski, under investigation by Berlin justice authorities for suspected fraud and embezzlement, also said it was obvious by the middle of 1988 that East Germany had little hope of surviving without western help. “At that time it was clear that we would lose political power if we didn’t solve our economic problems with the help of West Germany,” he said. Mr. Schalk-Golodkowski, a member of the former government’s central committee and a colonel in the Stasi security police, said East Germany's hopeless position was discussed at a meeting at top officials reviewing the country’s 1990 economic plan. “But we did not talk about unification then, only confederation,” he added. The Wall Street Journal (Europe), Jan. 4-5, 1991. Honecker’s visit to West Germany in 1987 was a major initiative in the move to reunify Germany. Indicating that he favors tight bonds between the two states. He said the border ‘could no longer separate the two Germanies and the day that it links us together will come if the Germanies make further efforts.’ .. West German chancellor Helmut Kohl also reiterated his country’s insistence on seeking the reunification of Germany, saying Honecker’s visit promoted East-West dialogue and ‘reinforced the nation’s awareness of unity. Feather, F., G-Forces, Re-inventing the World, Toronto, Summerhill Press, 1989. Gorbachev’s Perestroika was in need of a friendly Germany to pursue demilitarization. And the USSR had given Honecker the go ahead.