Honecker

[hoh-ni-ker, hoh-nek-uhr]

noun

1. Erich 1912–94, East German Communist leader: chairman of the Council of State 1976–89.

Honecker

/ ˈhɒnɛkər /

noun

1. Erich (ˈeːrɪç). 1912–94, German statesman; head of state of East Germany (1976–89)

Example Sentences

These were not idealists building Communism; it was difficult to be an idealist under the leadership of grey nonentities like Polish Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski or East Germany’s Erich Honecker.

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Mr. Honecker was out of a job, and Mr. Brezhnev was dead.

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“When I first saw the Berlin Wall, I knew exactly what I wanted to paint: Brezhnev and Honecker,” he said in the 2013 interview.

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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.

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Indeed, the painting’s satirical simplicity and power to shock were so resonant that it has often been copied, with other leaders subbing in for Mr. Brezhnev and Mr. Honecker.

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