Saturday, 25 June 2019, Wünsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany: A quarter of a century after the withdrawal of then Soviet Armed Forces from Wünsdorf, Premier Dr. Dietmar Woidke highlighted the special relationship between Russia and Brandenburg. As per government statement: “It is a strong signal that Russians and Germans are coming together here today to promote a trusting relationship and a peaceful future,” he said at an commemoration event in Wünsdorf’s Bürgerhaus.
Wünsdorf, the city of books and bunkers, together with the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Germany, H.E. Mr. Sergei Netschajew, and Premier Dr. Dietmar Woidke, invited to the event to commemorate the withdrawal of troops and to constructively support German-Russian exchanges, and further economic ties. Brandenburg’s former Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck also partook in his capacity as representative of the German-Russian Forum.
It was at Wünsdorf that National Socialists planned their destructive campaigns against Poland, the Soviet Union and many other countries. After the war and the victory over Hitler’s Germany, the Soviet military installed its High Command of the Soviet Armed Forces Group in Germany there.
80 years after the beginning of the Second World War, Premier Dr. Woidke pointed out that “the common goal of a peaceful coexistence in Europe obliges us to remain in dialogue with each other and to cultivate and expand encounters between people, especially school partnerships and youth exchanges”.
For further information:
Embassy of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany (HE Ambassador Sergej Netschajew): http://www.russische-botschaft.de
Brandenburg State Chancery: https://www.brandenburg.de/sixcms/detail.php?gsid=bb1.c.635204.de
