“The new poverty is an invention of the socialist Jet-set.”

— Helmut Kohl

Die neue Armut ist eine Erfindung des sozialistischen Jet-sets
STERN (July 24, 1986)

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former chancellor of West Germany (1982-1990) and then the … 1930–2017

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