Erich Honecker Quotes
Always forwards, never backwards.
Citations
Honecker, Erich. Address at the 40th Anniversary of the German Democratic Republic. Neues Deutschland, 9 Oct. 1989, p. 3.
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Erich Ernst Paul Honecker was an East German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in October 1989. He held the posts of General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and Chairman of the National Defense Council; in 1976, he replaced Willi Stoph as Chairman of the State Council, the official head of state. As leader of East Germany, Honecker had close ties to the Soviet Union, which maintained a large army in the country.