The Washington Post, March 16th, 1991
NO DOUBT Erich Honecker, the former head of the East German state, is genuinely ill. But there was more than purely humanitarian good will to the Soviet decision to remove him - illegally - from the Soviet military hospital in Germany where he was being treated and fly him to Moscow. Mr. Honecker was, involuntarily, a key figure in one of the great events of this century - the Soviet withdrawal from its Eastern European empire. The president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, signaled that momentous change irrevocably when he told Mr. Honecker that he would not use Soviet tanks to support...
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