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by acqq 4616 days ago
And then one year later Obama, the Nobel prize for peace winner, gave the 'freedom medal' to Merkel praising her:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/07/remark...

"Told by the communists that she couldn’t pursue her love of languages, she excelled as a physicist. Asked to spy for the secret police, she refused."