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    • 3-5 February

      1987

      The Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze meets with SED leader Erich Honecker in East Berlin.

    • 5 February

      1987

      The surprise announcement is made that Markus Wolf, the GDR head of the foreign intelligence service and Mielke’s deputy, is leaving the Ministry for State Security at his own wish.

    • 12 February

      1987

      Lutz Schmidt: born on July 8, 1962, shot dead at the Berlin Wall on February 12, 1987 while trying to escape (photo: Anfang der 1980er Jahre)
      Lutz Schmidt; photo: Anfang der 1980er Jahre (Photo: private)
      The 24-year-old Lutz Schmidt is shot dead on the Berlin sector border while trying to escape. The GDR State Security compels his wife to stay quiet about the true circumstances of her husband’s death and to pass off his death as the result of a car accident. Lutz Schmidt born on July 8, 1962, shot dead on February 12, 1987 near Rheingoldstrasse

    • 23 February

      1987

      As part of the cultural liberalisation of the Soviet Union, the Nobel Literature Prize laureate Boris Pasternak ("Doctor Zhivago") is posthumously accepted back into the Writer’s Federation of the USSR.
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