Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people will keep fleeing as long as they can," said Christian Schreiber, a 23-year-old East German who joined fellow citizens taking advantage of the new freedom to escape their Communist homeland through Czechoslovakia...
...refugees ignored pleas by new Communist Party leader Egon Krenz to remain in East Germany and scoffed at his promises of reforms. So far this year, about 170,000 people have left seeking freedom in the West...
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--More than 1300 young East Germans jammed the West German Embassy yesterday to seek new lives in the West, and many scoffed at promised reforms in the communist homeland they left behind...
...East Berlin, Communist Party leader Egon Krenz urged closer economics ties to the West and said a new law permitting travel to the West would be announced next week. Several top Communist officials resigned, including the wife of former leader Erich Honecker...
...current Communist leadership in Prague has strongly rejected the need for reforms and has dealt harshly with dissent...