You're downvoted, but I understand this was almost certainly true. There were high level officials in the German government that were leveraged by Russian gas

You're downvoted, but I understand this was almost certainly true. There were high level officials in the German government that were leveraged by Russian gas companies, and this was widely reported on. Germany had a strong green movement, so you couldn't blame all of this on the Russians; but they had a fertile bed of irrational anti-nuclear sentiment upon which to sow their seeds.