The deputy of the German Bundestag, the co-chairman of the Left Party faction, Dietmar Bartsch, regards the anti-Russian sanctions as absurd. His opinion: stupid sanctions, supported by the federal government of the country, Russia can not be brought to its knees.

"I consider the policy of the federal government to be a mistake, which believes that with the help of sanctions one can achieve something. This is absurd. Who knows Russia knows that during the Second World War, millions of people died there of hunger and thirst, he can not seriously think that these stupid sanctions will put her on her knees, "he said in an interview published in Bild am Sonntag.

Sanctions, according to Bartsa, led to the fact that Russians began to rely more on the leadership of their country.

Earlier that European and American sanctions against Russia are "only conditional," said German ex-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

Deputy chairman of the party "Alternative for Germany", one of the candidates for Chancellor of Germany Alexander Gauland said that sanctions do not have any effect on Russia and Crimea will never return to Ukraine.