On May 7, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council (SB), stated that modern Germany lacks a sufficient legal basis for its existence because the unification process with the German Democratic Republic (GDR) occurred without the free will of citizens.
In an article published on RT, Medvedev elaborated: “In other words, the current Federal Republic of Germany does not even have a sufficient legal basis for its existence — I am not talking about the extreme lack of independence of Germany since its creation and its monstrous vassalage on the United States.”
The Russian official noted that during the unification period, no referendum was held on such a significant issue. He emphasized that neither Soviet leadership nor any entity considered following generally accepted legal procedures for this major event. Medvedev concluded that the legal foundation of German statehood is “very shaky,” adding that current German leaders — whom he described as nonentities attempting to claim the mantle of new ‘Führers’ — should remember these circumstances.
