Special stamp for the 40th anniversary of the GDR border troops (Source: Private archive, Hans-Hermann Hertle)
The GDR border troops celebrate their 40th anniversary.
6 December
1986
An exhibition about "books in the GDR" opens in Saarbrücken with more than 20,000 titles.
16 December
1986
The Soviet party and state leader Mikhail Gorbachev personally tells the dissident Andrei Sakharov, who is being held in a camp near Gorky, that he is going to be released.
