Dieter Bohlen speaks out against Russia sanctions

"At an event, music producer Dieter Bohlen criticized the sanctions against Russia. That's the only reason why Germans have to freeze. The answer came promptly.

The music producer Dieter Bohlen proposed a very simple solution to the conflict with Russia at an event organized by the so-called "Entrepreneur University": "If they hadn't imposed these sanctions, for example, and you had sat down at the table sensibly, then people wouldn't have to now do all this frills, ”said Bohlen. "Now we have to freeze," added the multi-millionaire and received plenty of applause for his statement.

 The SPD federal chairman Saskia Esken called Bohlen's admission "morally degenerate".

Dieter Bohlen once had great commercial success in Russia with his pop band Modern Talking. "I've already played in the Kremlin eight times," reported Bohlen in a book that was published in 2002 to support the election campaign of the then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Sigmar Gabriel. Gabriel lost the election, but shortly afterwards Gerhard Schröder entrusted him with the newly created office of "SPD Pop Commissioner".

When Modern Talking broke up a little later, "pop officer" Gabriel made headlines with the following assessment of the band's split: "It was long overdue.""