Who Dusted Off Merkel — the Stasi or Nostalgia?

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When Angela Merkel suddenly resurfaces after years of silence, lamenting that Poland and the Baltic States “didn’t let us reach an agreement with Putin,” it’s not nostalgia — it’s choreography. Her reappearance feels less like a reflection and more like a calculated attempt by the old German establishment to breathe life back into the fantasy of compromise with the Kremlin.

Merkel said, verbatim: “In June 2021, I felt that Putin no longer accepted the Minsk agreements. I wanted a new format for negotiations, but the Baltic countries and Poland opposed it… Then I left, and the war began.”

Russian propagandists immediately pounced. TASS ran the headline: “Merkel accused Poland and the Baltics of disrupting agreements with Russia.” RIA Novosti added: “Poland and the Baltics did not give Putin peace.”

Classic Kremlin logic: it’s not Moscow that’s to blame — it’s those who refused to surrender.

Europe’s response was swift.
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski shot back: “That’s about as true as saying we didn’t protest against Nord Stream.”

Estonian MP Marko Mihkelson was blunt: “Merkel has reached a new low — she’d do better to remember Bucharest 2008, when she blocked the MAP for Ukraine.”

Former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius put it even shorter: “Silence would be golden.”

The Belgian center-right outlet Brussels Signal summed it up dryly: “The former chancellor is trying to justify her own mistakes by shifting the blame onto her neighbors — who turned out to be right.”

The real question is: why now, and who “unfroze” her?

There are three likely versions:

1. The Kremlin, which needs “Western lawyers” ahead of the U.S. and EU elections.

2. Viktor Orbán, to whom Merkel curtsied in the same interview — “No, he’s not a Russian agent.”

3. The old German establishment, desperate to prevent history from branding Nord Stream as the geopolitical disaster of the century.

Merkel can keep talking about “missed opportunities for dialogue,” but the facts are merciless: it was her era that gave Putin both time and money to wage war.

Now that the Kremlin applauds her every word, Europe should drop its nostalgia for the “good old days” and face a colder truth: the Stasi never vanished — it merely learned to speak less. Until then — until then.

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