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- 1994 Jun 6 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of translated interview 22 May 1994, with Milos Jakes, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 1987-1989, describing the character of Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party, German Democratic Republic 1971-1989; German - Soviet relations; the role of sport in East German recognition; attitude of the Czech government to East German refugees in the West Germany Embassy, Prague; Honecker's solution to Prague refugee crisis; effect of opening of Hungarian border on 19 Aug 1989; the presence of Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR 1985-1991, at the German Democratic Republic's Fortieth Anniversary celebrations, East Berlin 6 October 1989; response of East Germans to Gorbachev. 64pp
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