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...country's former top cop, Honecker enjoys strong support from the East German security services-and from the Soviets, who maintain 20 combat-ready divisions in East Germany. The Russians, in fact, call him "nash chelovyek" (our man). Honecker's only known diversion is hunting, which he does alone. He lives outside Berlin in a villa in the heavily guarded government complex at Wandlitz with Margot and their teen-age son. A Communist diplomat who has visited the Honecker home describes it as "spotless, functional, unimaginative and stiff-just like Honecker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Russians' New Man in East Berlin | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

...questioning, which lasted a majority of the 48 hours, I was told that I was 'chestny chelovyek'-an honest fellow-and that I was to be released. . . . The commandant of the prison actually carried my bag downstairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Chestny Chelovyek | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

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