The Local Germany

Berlinale film on 'fake news' of Soviet-era famine holds lessons for today

Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:08:25 +0100

Polish director Agnieszka Holland premiered a film at Berinale about the cover-up of Stalin's mass famine in Ukraine with the complicity of the West, arguing this early example of "fake news" was still toxic today.

Putin's Stasi ID card found in Dresden archive

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:31:29 +0100

A Stasi ID card belonging to Russian president Vladimir Putin has been coincidentally found in a Dresden archive, German media reported Tuesday.

Lenin's head to be 'resurrected' in Berlin

Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:19:51 +0200

Buried and long forgotten, the head of a giant Lenin statue is set to make a comeback in the German capital a quarter-century after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Reagan to Gorbachev: 'Tear down this wall'!

Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:52:15 +0200

On June 12th 1987 US President Ronald Reagan gave a historic speech at the Berlin Wall in front of the iconic Brandenburg Gate, urging Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “Tear down this wall!”

Party leader demands Lenin's head

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:54:00 +0200

Gregor Gysi, the leader of the federal socialist Left party, has demanded that the 3.5-tonne head of Lenin be dug out of its wooded resting place for an exhibition on Berlin's memorial landmarks.

Romanian PM: Secret police in German press

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:20:00 +0200

The Romanian prime minister has claimed that secret police from his country have infiltrated the German press in a bid to sabotage his rule.

Soviet soldier in famous Reichstag photo dies

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:32:00 +0100

One of three Red Army soldiers in a famed 1945 photograph that depicts the Soviet flag being lifted over Berlin's Reichstag has died at age 93, Russian officials said on Wednesday.

Gorbachev receives Dresden award for nuclear disarmament

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:41:00 +0100

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the inaugural Dresden Prize on Sunday in recognition of his role in bringing the Cold War to a peaceful end.