Margot Honecker, the widow of the head of the GDR, died in Chile

In Chile, Margot Honecker, the widow of the head of the GDR Erich Honecker, died. She was 89 years old, reports on Twitter CNN Chile.

Margot has been next to her husband since the 1950s. Erich Honecker headed the socialist single party of Germany (SUPG) in 1971, and in 1976 he became the chairman of the State Council of the GDR. In October 1989, he was removed from all party and state posts, in December expelled from SUPG, TASS reports.

The first lady was the Minister of Education in 1963-1989. She was not too popular in Eastern Germany and received the nickname "Violet Witch", reports Reuters.

After the unification of Germany in 1990, Erich Honecker was first in the Berlin hospital, and then in the Soviet military hospital near Potsdam. The judicial authorities of Germany issued an order to arrest him. In March 1991, Erich and Margot Honecker were secretly taken out on a military plane to Moscow, where they were “personal guests” of the USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, but in December Honecker was ordered to leave the country within three days. Honeckers found refuge at the Chile embassy in Moscow.

On July 30, 1992, they were sent from Russia to Germany, where the former leader of the GDR was arrested and prosecuted. The trial against Honecker was terminated due to his state of health: he was mortally ill with cancer. After the release from the imprisonment, Honecker and his wife emigrated to Chile, where he died on May 29, 1994.

The former first lady of the GDR was a fierce supporter of her husband and for many years defended him after the disappearance of the country that he led. "This woman talks about Mikhail Gorbachev as a person who" who lied so much. "The GDR to this day remains a state where people" lived in the world and had a good education, prospects and medical support, "the author quoted the author." And if people were killed on the basis of the rules for the use of weapons when trying to escape from the GDR towards freedom? According to Honecker, these people themselves made stupidity, ”they wrote about her in Focus magazine in 2012 (translation by Inopressa ).