Speech by East German leader Erich Honecker at the Meeting of the Party and State Leaders of the States Participating in the Warsaw Treaty5 Dec 1980 |
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This document is a transcript of a speech given by East German leader Erich Honecker at the meeting of the Warsaw Pact party leaders. Honecker expresses his concern about the situation in Poland. He refers to the establishment of strike committees in Gdansk and Sczeczin as a mistake. In Honecker's view, freeing political prisoners would undermine the position of the Polish Communist Party. He argues that NATO and the European Economic Community are backing the representatives of various groups emerging in Poland, including Solidarność. Collection: Romania and the W'Pact
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Document Type:
Speech Sender: Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the Socialist Party Language of Original Document: Romanian Number of Pages: 3 Cold War Period: 1980s Persons: Honecker, Kania, Brezhnev, Wałęsa, Kreisky, Dubček, Husák |
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Document Source: National Central Historical Archives (ANIC), Bucharest Call Number: Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, chancellery, no.5257, 9.12.1980. DR, vol.2 |