Margot Honecker
Died on May 6, 2016 at age 89
Mrs. Honecker was the widow of Erich Honecker, the longtime ruler of Communist East Germany, and a powerful hard-liner in her own right as the minister of education for 26 years until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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