Meeting between Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev in the Crimea, 11 August 1980 (Photo: Bundesarchiv, Image 183-W1009-333, Photographer: TASS)
Meeting between CPSU leader Leonid Brezhnev and SED General Secretary Erich Honecker in the Crimea.
There are many indications that the CPSU leader calls vehemently on Erich Honecker to dissociate himself from West Germany and to finally break away from economic reliance on Bonn. So far, no minutes of this meeting could be found. Central Committee economics minister Günter Mittag recalled later that after returning to the SED Politburo, Erich Honecker reported that Brezhnev had asked questions about the reliability of two people in the SED leadership. He said that the General Secretary had told him confidentially that he (Mittag) himself was one of them.less
Autobiography by Erich Honecker, 1980 (Source: Dietz Verlag Berlin)
The autobiography of Erich Honecker is published in East Berlin. It says that the construction of the Wall had "rescued peace and laid the cornerstone for the continued prosperity of the German Democratic Republic."
The British publisher Robert Maxwell obtains the global distribution rights for his series "Leaders of the World".
31 August
1980
The leader of the strike at the Gdansk shipyards, Lech Walesa, and the Polish Deputy Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Jagielski sign the "Gdansk Agreement".more