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Who was Erich Honecker?

Erich Honecker (August 25, 1912 - May 29, 1994) was a German Communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until 1989.

After German re-unification, he first fled to the Soviet Union but was extradited by the new Russian government to Germany, where he was imprisoned and tried for high treason and crimes committed during the Cold War, in particular for ordering border guards to kill people trying to cross the Berlin Wall. However, as he was dying of cancer, he was released from prison. He died in exile in Chile about a year and a half later.

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