Chancellor Franz Josef Strauss.

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What if he had become Chancellor in 1980? How would that have changed the dynamics of the Cold war and the German Foreign Policy? Does it affect the European Community to a great extent?
 
Strauß wasn't as europhile as Kohl, so European unification might be a bit slower. He wouldn't leave NATO like de Gaulle, but Germany'd go more of an own way.

Hard to tell how he'd react on Gorbachev and his reforms.

You may expect the one or other corruption affair, good relations between Germany and diverse dictatorships, and a lot of verbal outrages.
 
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