Honecker
Americannoun
noun
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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.
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2022
Communist leader Erich Honecker had quit the previous month and on 4 November East Berlin saw more than half a million people flock to the central square Alexanderplatz demanding reform.
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2021
Honecker felt still further threatened when Gorbachev, asked discreetly by West German media about the possibility of eventual unification, said obliquely: “Time alone will bring change.”
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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