Honecker

So, the question is whether the DDR was worse or better than, f.e., the United Emirates and honestly, I'd rather live in Abu Dabi than in East-Berlin during the Honecker times ...

Bryan Gets Some Pushback, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

“We have done our perestroika,” Honecker told Gorbachev, “we have nothing to restructure.”

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

My wife is EX - east German, Before the fall of the wall, Eric Honecker, iron curtain type stuff.

If it smells like socialism..... 2009

Cay Wesnigk mined the archives of the East German state film studio to chronicle the regime's rise and fall, with instructional films about threats from the West, TV shows indoctrinating children, and the East German leader Erich Honecker and his wife, Margot, waltzing at the twilight of the so-called German Democratic Republic.

Reconstructive History Kristin M. Jones 2012

My wife is EX - east German, Before the fall of the wall, Eric Honecker, iron curtain type stuff.

If it smells like socialism..... 2009

For instance, tests in schools have shown that few students know who Erich Honecker was, but most consider East Germany to have been a democratic, lawful state and the Stasi a normal secret service.

The Lives of Nazis, the Stasi and Others Lorenz Maroldt 2010

Now, who recalls that it was her group, New Forum, that organized the silent candlelight marches that surrounded and eventually strangled the regime of Erich Honecker?

Remembering Baerbel Bohley, an artist who helped bring down the Berlin Wall Marc Fisher 2010

“We have done our perestroika,” Honecker told Gorbachev, “we have nothing to restructure.”

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The old fellow travelers and Honecker claques became deputies and ministers in reunited Germany, just as former Nazis enjoyed political careers after the war.

The Lives of Nazis, the Stasi and Others Lorenz Maroldt 2010

“We have done our perestroika,” Honecker told Gorbachev, “we have nothing to restructure.”

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011