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Angela Merkel on Putin, Trump, and a post-Cold War world still divided

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Angela Merkel's new book, "Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021 ," is filled with moving memories of what it was like growing up in the Communist -controlled police state that was East Germany .

Merkel left power three years ago this week , and has gone into a kind of political radio silence since then, keeping her recollections and opinions to herself.

Angela Merkel says she now refrains from giving advice to world leaders.

She says she is worried about developments in the world: "I've always said that fear is not a good advisor. Times have become rougher" Merkel: "We had great hopes that things would become easier after the end of the Cold War ".