
Modrow died early Saturday, the Left party parliamentary group tweeted.
Modrow, a reform-minded communist, took over East Germany shortly after the Berlin Wall fell and later invited opposition forces into the government. However, he could not slow the gathering momentum for German reunification. The entire peaceful course of establishing German unity was precisely a special achievement of his,” the Left wrote on Twitter. That will remain his political legacy.”
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