Good for him. German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was giving a speech in Berlin when a group of left-wing Putin supporters began loudly heckling him as a "Kriegstreiber" - a war-monger. Putin's propaganda machine has been effective in channeling George Orwell, portraying his invaision of Crimea and deployment of masked thugs in Eastern Ukraine as forces of "anti-imperialism", while the mass demonstrations in Kiev are forces of "fascism" manipulated by the Americans (CIA) lusting for war. So now we have the German left largely united (with the notable exception of the Green Party) in giving support to ethnically-driven Russian nationalism.
In any event, Steinmeier evidently lost his patience with the demonstrators and delivers an impassioned support of Europe and democracy.
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