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Chronicle 1978

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    • 7 July

      1978

      The East Berlin conscientious objector Nico Hübner is sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. He had cited the demilitarised status of Berlin as a reason for his objection.
    • 13-15 July

      1978

      Visit by US President Jimmy Carter to West Germany.
    • 25 July

      1978

      Meeting between CPSU leader Leonid Brezhnev and SED General Secretary Erich Honecker in the Crimea. Brezhnev tells Honecker that the policies of the Chinese leadership are becoming more and more aggressive; he says that it backs the unity of Germany, which in fact means the "incorporation of the GDR".

      Speaking about the development of the relations between the GDR and West Germany, Brezhnev says that it is advisable " to control or restrict all channels through which the Federal Republic tries to exert influence on developments in the GDR." Whether Honecker’s wish for Soviet grain deliveries to the GDR – which stopped during the years between 1976 and 1978 – could be fulfilled, Brezhnev says, depends on the harvest in the Soviet Union; according to the Soviet leader, it was just as little possible to promise anything here as in the case of the delivery of raw materials in general and particularly of crude oil. less
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