Some of his positions , like fighting Germany 's amnesia about its wartime record , have been embraced by the country as a whole , but others have stirred controversy , notably when he opposed German unification in 1990 as a threat to Europe and later described East Germany 's '' annexation '' by West Germany as a colonial act .
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