On 13 November 1989, six days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Erich Mielke addressed the parliament of the German Democratic Republic in his role as Minister of State Security. When one member of the parliament objected to his use of the term "comrades" to address them, he replied "But I love...I love all...all people...". The room could only laugh.
I know about Mielke, and about the above clip, because of Philip Kerr's novel Field Grey (2010).
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