Honecker's Secret Mercedes Cost as Much as Ten Volkswagens, the Three-Pointed Star Was Taboo

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A few days ago it was 31 years after Erich Honecker’s death in our country. He lived a relatively peaceful life and fought his cancer to the kidneys, when his heart told him that so far his earthly presence came. A little less than a year and a half lasted his exile. Looking at sunsets in the commune of Las Condes and with a small security environment trying to keep him safe. Not only from German and Chilean journalists. Also from snooping aroun…

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On the outside, he appeared to be a rigid supporter of communist ideology, but behind the official facade, he did not hesitate to live far above the means of his fellow citizens. Erich Honecker, who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until the fall of the Iron Curtain, had two great hobbies: Western cars and hunting. In his specially modified Mercedes, both of his hobbies intersected. While at the time when Gustáv Husák was using a Sov…