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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Q. In your long career, you have been responsible for youth affairs and, as a member of the Politburo, for state security. Why did you not insist on reforms much earlier?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Egon Krenz: He Stopped the Shooting | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

A. There are many steps along a career path, and every honest politician goes up a learning curve. In the beginning, I felt that Erich Honecker was a person worth emulating because of the way he combined economic achievement with social progress and the great attention he paid to youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Egon Krenz: He Stopped the Shooting | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Later I felt very strongly about decisions that had very little to do with reality. I expressed this view on repeated occasions in the mid-'80s, when great changes were taking place in socialist societies, primarily in the Soviet Union. In the leadership there was a majority, influenced by Honecker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Egon Krenz: He Stopped the Shooting | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

A. Yes, you could say that. But furthermore, to change policies you need a political majority. My political friends will confirm that I felt very much inspired by the ideas of Gorbachev, without thinking that the same changes had to be introduced here. We were and still are different countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Egon Krenz: He Stopped the Shooting | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Q. Is it true that on Oct. 9 you personally intervened to prevent another Tiananmen Square happening in Leipzig by countermanding a written order by Honecker to use military units in and around the city -- which had received live ammunition -- to put down the demonstrations by force, on the grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Egon Krenz: He Stopped the Shooting | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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