wimer says i am telling this with wimer's permission.secretary general suggested giving the gdr. wimer says: we they sat as if simply shocked by an electric shock, and these were direct words. that our secretary general said that we are ready to give up the gdr. the ambassador, who was present at the time, tells him: “i recommend that when you return to germany, do not tell kolya about this conversation.” wiemer comes to germany, meets with helmut kohl, and he was with him, well, of course, he was a fairly high official at that time, he meets with kohl, kohl was terribly dissatisfied, he said, well, in general, all this talk , which we have been conducting for almost a whole year, they are very hidden. closed, and it is very strange to me that mikhail gorbachev extended this to his advisers. akhrameev was then, in my opinion, gorbachev’s chief military adviser, although, as you know, gorbachev practically did not use him and in fact did not give him any instructions, this is when it happened then, then kolya, this is already a conversati

and a month after this visit , the parliamentary state secretary of the ministry of defense, willy wimerhal akhrameev, well, they were resolving some military issues, he meets with marshal akhrameev, they have a conversation, there are three people present, the german ambassador, who then, i don’t remember him surname, who was then in moscow. it all started approximately the same way with the americans, but then the americans quickly realized that if the soviet union gives up the gdr, then germany will inevitably take it away, even if all the allies don’t want it, and if it happens in exactly this way and everyone is against it, then the federal republic of germany, already united, will go to the soviet union, it will fall under the influence of the soviet union. the americans could not allow this, then all this talk began about the americans saying: yes, we seem to be ready. we don’t seem to be, at this moment the most serious turning point came for germany, it was necessary to decide, how to do all this? they were then negotiating with that leadership of the gdr, in august 1989, unexpe