In the freezing cold, he spoke hoarsely into the microphone for the Tagesschau: The long-time ARD correspondent Gerd Ruge captivated with his reports from dark Russia and the hardly easier to understand America. About a political journalist who was anything but a power man.
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Willi Winkler
In the Soviet Union, Gerd Ruge left no doubt, it was cold, bitterly cold. With a fur hat he stood in Red Square and spoke for them daily News hoarse into a microphone. The war was cold, which luckily never got hot, cold was the country from which the man reported, but strangely enough it burned for the country from which he sent cold clouds over the television.