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Events of 1989 (Opening of Hungary's borders (May 1989 Hungary opened…
Events of 1989
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Gorbachev's visit
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Gorbachev was a guest of honour at a torch-lit parade of FDJ members. They called out ‘Gorby! Save us!’
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Protests
Sunday 8th October – Red alert issued by Mielke which authorised a shoot-to-kill approach. Despite this, no shots were fired:
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Reliability of the security forces questions – would the conscripts fire? If not, then entire authority of the state would collapse. Self-defence orders were issued instead
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Demonstrations took place in Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig, where regular Monday night crowds of 70,000 outside the St Nicholas Church
People protested throughout the GDR – moaning about living conditions, pollution, lack of freedoms – but they were not yet demanding regime change – this was not yet revolutionary movement
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Sealed train
Honecker agreed to allow the 5500 citizens in the embassies to leave for the FRG as long as the trains went through the GDR – it would appear that they citizens were being expelled.
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