The Revolutions of 1989 continue: Erich E.P. Honaker, dictator the communist Democratic Republic of (East) Germany, for the previous 28-years, resigns over ever-increasing popular resistance to his authoritarian rule. Honaker is succeeded by Egon Krenz, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
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CHRONOLOGY-Communism’s fall around eastern Europe – Reuters
www.reuters.com/article/idUSL10690064
Fall of the Berlin Wall: Timeline of a year of wonder, when the unthinkable became the unstoppable | The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/fall-of-the-berlin-wall-timeline-of-a-year-of-wonder-when-the-unthinkable-became-the-unstoppable-9821984.html
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