East Germans miss 'good life' of the GDR, says Honecker widow
BERLIN: East Germans are nostalgic for the "good life" they had under communism despite a propaganda campaign to discredit the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the widow of ex-GDR leader Erich Honecker says in a new video.
Margot Honecker, who has lived in Chile since 1992, is shown in the video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of East Germany with former exiles who sought asylum in the GDR after the 1973 coup by Augusto Pinochet. The group sings a patriotic East German song before Honecker, standing in front of the hammer and sickle of the GDR flag, gives a short speech in German.
"There is a huge amount of opposition in Germany right now to the GDR," she says. "There is no talk show, no film, no news program that doesn't try to discredit the GDR."
