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Article: Meet Honecker junior; Egon Krenz will try to put a younger face on East Germany's same old policies. (editorial)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 21, 1989
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Meet Honecker junior
Egon Krenz will try to put a younger face on East Germany's same old policies. He will fail
LOOK at East Germany's new boss, Egon Krenz. Does he remind you of anyone? Like Mikhail Gorbachev when he vaulted into the top job in the Soviet Union, young Egon is still in his early 50s and the baby of the Politburo. There, unhappily, the similarity ends. The doddery old men who ruled Russia in 1985 chose Mr Gorbachev because they could see the mess that their own economic folly had brought them to. They needed someone with the energy, ideas and courage to make the leap to reform. The doddery old men who run East Germany (the average age ...