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    • 11 August

      1980

      Meeting between Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev in the Crimea, 11 August 1980
      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
    • 14 August

      1980

      Strike by 17,000 workers at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. They combine their strike with political demands. The 21 points of negotiation put forward by the industry-wide strike committee at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk (in German)
    • 25 August

      1980

      Autobiography by Erich Honecker, 1980
      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
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