Former Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk. File photoMOSCOW, 28 Oct. Former Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk posted on his Twitter a laudatory post about former German President Joachim Gauck, which caused anger among the Germans. «Federal President Joachim Gauck was and remains my favorite politician in Germany. A real statesman. With backbone and principles. Not afraid. Even in front of Putin,” the diplomat wrote. Users of the social network reacted differently to the Ukrainian’s statement: some agreed, calling Gauk a wise and noble person, but many were indignant because of Melnyk’s words. “Oh, God! You protect Stasi operative? This is bad news about Ukraine,» Margit11 wrote.Melnik insulted the German MP on Twitter «How bravely he sits in his warm chair <…>, while others have to shoot each other and die in the process,» commented HolgerH17. what do you like it,» replied the ex-ambassador Alice Spatz. Marukamerad. «Indeed, this rebel against the smartest in our country shows that the sympathies of this Banderist always hit the right ones,» said smoke_camera. «You look alike, both have behavioral problems! Like attracts like, right?» added C19_K79.
Former Ukrainian Ambassador demanded laser weapons from Germany Joachim Gauck served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017. The politician was born in 1940 in the GDR. From his youth, he did not hide his anti-communist views, he became a pastor in Mecklenburg, where he served until the end of the 1980s. In 1990, Gauck was elected to the People's Chamber of the GDR, later he was appointed commissioner for the management of the Stasi archives. In 2010, he participated in the presidential elections, but lost to Christian Wulff. But two years later he won the vote and took the post of head of state.
