Honecker
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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With paint and a ladder, he recreated a larger-than-life version of a 1979 photo of a kiss between Mr. Brezhnev and Mr. Honecker.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
She will still have an office close to the Bundestag, in a flat that was once used by Margot Honecker, once dubbed the most powerful woman in communist East Germany.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2021
When I first moved to East Berlin to work for Reuters in 1981, I picked up a 20th anniversary poster with a Honecker lookalike, sporting his trademark heavy-framed glasses, among “heroic” army construction workers.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2019
Honecker was gone, the new government was in crisis, and every day that passed without violence made a Tiananmen-style crackdown seem less likely.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015
That same month, Erich Honecker, the iron-fisted East German leader, was removed by the communist leadership.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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