The leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries meet in Moscow to discuss the tense situation in Poland. They decide against a military intervention.
16 December
1980
In another memo by the SED Politburo member Werner Krolikowski, he writes: "It would be good if Comrade L. I. Brezhnev were to speak with EH to make him listen to reason. (…) EH is pursuing an irresponsible, two-faced, zig-zag policy in GDR-FRG relations, which is leading to unease and growing uncertainty. (…)
We suggest to the Soviet side that it carefully analyse EH’s actions in foreign affairs with regard to the FRG and speak with him about the mistakes that have been made so that the basis for a fundamentally clear course of foreign policy towards the FRG can be established and presented to the 10th Party Conference as a draft resolution."
Memo by Werner Krolikowski about Erich Honecker and his policies, 16 December 1980 (in German)less
16 December
1980
More than 500,000 people gather in front of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk to remember the workers killed at demonstrations in 1970.
