Erich Honecker9 October 1989
Around seventy thousand people demonstrate peacefully in Leipzig despite fears of a crackdown.
Germany · Politics / Socialist Unity Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Around seventy thousand people demonstrate peacefully in Leipzig despite fears of a crackdown.
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