In the city of Dessau-Roslau, located in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, yesterday the inauguration of the monument to the first and last president of the Soviet Union took place, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev. The ceremony was timed to the Day of German Unity, which celebrated its 30th anniversary this year.
It is reported by the TASS news agency.
The day before, Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to the German authorities on the occasion of the anniversary of German unification..
A monument in the form of a walking head of the Soviet state was erected opposite the city hall.
At the opening, Mayor of Dessau-Roslau Peter Kuras stated in his speech, that Gorbachev created the conditions for perestroika and glasnost, which led to the unification of Germany. And the Prime Minister of the federal state, Rainer Haseloff, spoke about, what, despite disagreements between Berlin and Moscow, German-Russian friendship exists today.
The famous sculptor Bernd Goebel became the author of the monument to Gorbachev. It was installed on the initiative of the former mayor Hans-Georg Otto. The creation of the monument cost 50 thousand euros. These funds were voluntarily donated by the people of Dessau-Roslau.
According to TASS, until that moment in Germany there was not a single monument to Gorbachev in full growth. There was only a bust of the former president of the USSR.
