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"Let us not allow the party to be broken, to go under, but let's make it clean and strong," Modrow said as the 3000 delegates applauded.
If the party split, Kroker said, "we would also destroy the hope for a free and cohesive society that we and the others want."
The Socialist Unity Party, as the Communist are officially known, was created in 1946 through the forced merger of the German Communist Party and the Social Democrats.
As hundreds of thousands of East Germans began taking to the streets in October to demand free elections and other democratic reforms, the hard-line Honecker was forced to resign on October 18.
He was replaced by Egon Krenz, who opened the Berlin Wall and gave the East Germans the freedom to travel they had not enjoyed since the wall was built in 1961.