Saxony: Kretschmer honors Gorbachev as a "man of peace"

Dresden (dpa / sn) - Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has honored the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Soviet President Michael Gorbachev as a "man of peace".

Saxony: Kretschmer honors Gorbachev as a "man of peace"

Dresden (dpa / sn) - Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has honored the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Soviet President Michael Gorbachev as a "man of peace". "The end of the Cold War and German reunification would have been unthinkable without him. We mourn the loss of Mikhail Gorbachev, a man of peace to whom Germany owes a lot," Kretschmer wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. Gorbachev received the Dresden Prize, an international peace prize, in 2010. The politician died in Moscow on Tuesday at the age of 91.