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oct 18, 1989 - Erich Honecker steps down

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- in response to pressure from the SED (communist party of the GDR)
- replaced by Egon Krenz
- Schabowski took the rule of unofficial spokesman, talking to the media regularly as reforms were pushed through

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oct 18, 1989
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~ 36 years ago