The speaker of the Russian Duma has asked a parliamentary committee to study a proposal to condemn the reunification of Germany in 1990.
Sergei Naryshkin earlier this week faced scathing criticism of Russia's annexation of Crimean peninsula when he spoke at the Parliament Assembly of Europe.
Russian news agencies say Communist deputy Nikolai Ivanov on Wednesday proposed a resolution to condemn what he called the "annexation" of East Germany in 1990. Ivanov said that unlike in Crimea, there was no popular vote to support the German reunification.
Negotiations between East and West Germany, and among foreign powers including the Soviet Union, resulted in a unification treaty officially granting full sovereignty to Germany on Oct. 3, 1990.
Naryshkin recommended that a committee consider Ivanonv's proposal before putting it to vote.
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Please tell me he's not seriously going to go there
Please tell me he's not seriously going to go there
Oh yeah, this looks like it will end so well:
"Hang on while I log in to the James Webb telescope to search the known universe for who the fuck asked you." -- James Fell
Re: Please tell me he's not seriously going to go there
Next they'll pass a resolution condemning the "illegal" destruction of The Berlin Wall... 
Shameless mendacity is the guiding principle of the Putin Regime, and this example of it is most likely intended primarily for internal consumption...
Since they have to know that no one beyond the borders of media-controlled Russia will take this laughable comparison between the seizure of Crimea and the re-unification of Germany remotely seriously...
Even after everything he's done I can't believe the intent of this is to try to lay a predicate for attempting to re-take East Germany...
Not even Putin can be that delusional...
ETA:
By the way Vlad, how's that $50 a barrel oil workin' out for ya?
Shameless mendacity is the guiding principle of the Putin Regime, and this example of it is most likely intended primarily for internal consumption...
Since they have to know that no one beyond the borders of media-controlled Russia will take this laughable comparison between the seizure of Crimea and the re-unification of Germany remotely seriously...
Even after everything he's done I can't believe the intent of this is to try to lay a predicate for attempting to re-take East Germany...
Not even Putin can be that delusional...
ETA:
By the way Vlad, how's that $50 a barrel oil workin' out for ya?
