IN HER colourless suit, Angela Merkel looked like a grey mouse, too ashamed to face the German public after her cowardly decision to permit investigation into a comedian who had insulted the Turkish president. She is the epitome of hypocrisy and double standards. Her migration policy is an act of political suicide which has empowered Germany’s fascist right…and so on, and so forth. This was the sneering tone with which Russia’s state television channels portrayed Germany’s chancellor last week. No other post-communist German leader has come under such fire from the Russian propaganda machine.
Only a few years ago Russians saw …read more
Source: The Economist
