BERLIN Hans Modrow, a Communist reformer who was one of the last political leaders of East Germany, died on Saturday in a hospital in Berlin.He was 95.His party, the far-left Die Linke, confirmed his death, from a stroke.Within East Germany's rigid Communist Party, Mr. Modrow was widely seen as a reformer in the mold of the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev he was often called the German Gorbachev, in fact who eschewed the big houses, fancy cars and other perks that many party leaders took for granted.
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