Party outraged Ukraine paper
Linke wants to throw Modrow out of her council of elders
03/26/2022, 11:11 p.m
The chairman of the Left Council of Elders, Modrow, claims in a paper that it is questionable whether the Ukraine war is a “civil war” and not the result of the Russian invasion. The party leadership now wants to get rid of him. Modrow knows Russian President Putin personally.
The Left Council of Elders, chaired by Hans Modrow, is reappointed – with the aim of getting rid of Modrow; The reason is a paper that the 94-year-old published on Thursday and in which he questioned whether the Russian attack on Ukraine was actually an attack or rather an intra-Ukrainian conflict.
As the editorial network Germany (RND) learned, the party executive unanimously voted in its meeting on Saturday to first decide on the future working method and structure of the committee and later on its members at the next party executive meeting in April. According to leading party circles, Modrow crossed a “red line” in his paper and caused damage to the party. That is not acceptable.
Modrow had written: “The question is to what extent the war in Ukraine is an invasion of Russian troops or an internal civil war between the forces in the new eastern states and fascist elements in western Ukraine.” Three members of the Council of Elders had already declared on Thursday: “This paper was not available to the Council of Elders and was not voted on or approved by the Council of Elders. We state that we are of the opinion that this is a criminal war of aggression by Russia against Ukraine. That is out of the question for us and must not be put into perspective.”
Modrow was the last non-democratically elected Prime Minister of the GDR and was considered a reformer before 1989. After 1989, however, he repeatedly drew attention to himself through doctrinal statements and was awarded the Russian Order of Friendship on his 90th birthday. Modrow knows Russian President Vladimir Putin personally from his time as a KGB officer in Dresden.