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We were all wrong. How Germany got hooked on Russian energy by Patrick Winter.

On Sunday 1st of February 1970, senior politicians and gas executives from Germany and the

Soviet Union gathered at the upmarket Hotel Kaiserhof in Essen. They were there to celebrate the

signing of a contract for the first major Russia-Germany gas pipeline, which was to run from Siberia

to the West German border at marked Redvits in Bavaria.

The contract was the result of nine months of intense bargaining over the price of the gas,

the cost of 1.2 million tonnes of German pipes to be sold to Russia,

and the credit terms offered to Moscow by a consortium of 17 German banks.

Aware of the risk of Russia defaulting, the German banks' chief financial

...