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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. more

    • 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
      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".

      The agreement guarantees the right to strike and to found independent, self-administered unions.
      RIAS telephone report from Warsaw on the situation in Poland after the end of the strike, 1 September 1980 (in German) (Source: Archiv Deutschlandradio, Broadcast: Rundschau am Abend, Moderatorin/Reporter: Christine Rackuff, Gerd Baumgarten)
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