Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2023 1:44:00 GMT
The last leader of communist East Germany, Hans Modrow, died at Berlin yesterday at the age of 95.
I don’t intend for this to be a discussion thread, but I thought I would let everybody know so that people can pray for his soul if they wish - the Lord alone knows what has happened to him now. He was an ardent communist and defender of the USSR and East Germany until his death. Although he originally supported the reforms of Gorbachev, he later blamed Gorbachev for the collapse of the communist system, which led to so much suffering, not so much in Germany, but particularly in the former USSR.
Born in 1928, he admitted to being an ardent National Socialist in his youth. He says he became a communist in 1945, when a Russian soldier asked him about a German poet whom he himself had never heard of, and he realised that the Slavs were just as intelligent and cultured as the Germans, thus negating the ideas of the “subhuman Slavic masses” he had been taught in his childhood. He was educated in Moscow and attended Stalin's funeral in 1953.
From 1967, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party, and became the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic in 1989 as the communist system was collapsing. Beginning in the 1970s, he was the First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Dresden, which I suppose must have been a most important post in a small country like the GDR. The last General Secretary of the Communist Party of East Germany, who resigned before Modrow did and was actually more hardline than Modrow, is still alive and is ten years younger than him.
My father visited East Germany when it was ruled by the iron-fisted Erich Honecker, whose loyalty to Brezhnevian-style Soviet communism lasted until he was forced out of office in October 1989, suffering from cancer. Gorbachev disliked Honecker for his extreme conservatism (in the sense that like Brezhnev he supported the entrenchment of the status quo) and his master-servant view of how relations between Moscow and Berlin needed to be conducted.
Hans Modrow (1928-2023): the last communist premier of East Germany.
Let's pray for his soul, because I am sure that he is in need of our prayers.
I don’t intend for this to be a discussion thread, but I thought I would let everybody know so that people can pray for his soul if they wish - the Lord alone knows what has happened to him now. He was an ardent communist and defender of the USSR and East Germany until his death. Although he originally supported the reforms of Gorbachev, he later blamed Gorbachev for the collapse of the communist system, which led to so much suffering, not so much in Germany, but particularly in the former USSR.
Born in 1928, he admitted to being an ardent National Socialist in his youth. He says he became a communist in 1945, when a Russian soldier asked him about a German poet whom he himself had never heard of, and he realised that the Slavs were just as intelligent and cultured as the Germans, thus negating the ideas of the “subhuman Slavic masses” he had been taught in his childhood. He was educated in Moscow and attended Stalin's funeral in 1953.
From 1967, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party, and became the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic in 1989 as the communist system was collapsing. Beginning in the 1970s, he was the First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Dresden, which I suppose must have been a most important post in a small country like the GDR. The last General Secretary of the Communist Party of East Germany, who resigned before Modrow did and was actually more hardline than Modrow, is still alive and is ten years younger than him.
My father visited East Germany when it was ruled by the iron-fisted Erich Honecker, whose loyalty to Brezhnevian-style Soviet communism lasted until he was forced out of office in October 1989, suffering from cancer. Gorbachev disliked Honecker for his extreme conservatism (in the sense that like Brezhnev he supported the entrenchment of the status quo) and his master-servant view of how relations between Moscow and Berlin needed to be conducted.
Hans Modrow (1928-2023): the last communist premier of East Germany.
Let's pray for his soul, because I am sure that he is in need of our prayers.
