In fact Germany even *supported* Gorbachev when he had people in Lithuania and Latvia killed in 1991.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/bonn-moscow-ties-newly-released-documents-shed-fresh-light-on-nato-s-eastward-expansion-a-5a362292-dfe6-4355-b90f-10d635d7d664
RT @ilvestoomas: @DrRadchenko Yet Germany pushed much harder to integrate Russia than it did to integrate Eastern Europe, even to the point of opposing Baltic *independence* and later trying to veto their membership in the E