Margot Honecker to ANA-MPA: The powerful countries push the weak ones off the cliff

Gazzetta team
Margot Honecker to ANA-MPA: The powerful countries push the weak ones off the cliff
Margot Honecker (former minister of Education and widow of the last leader of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) Erich Honecker) in an interview with ANA-MPA called the events of 1989 as a "counter-revolution" and considered them "a consequence of the lethal arms race" in which the US dragged the Soviet Union" and as a result the "so-called reformers" abandoned all the "Soviet conquests."

In the exclusive interview with ANA-MPA on the occasion of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, she admitted for the first time the mistake of the German Democratic Republic: "We did not always do our job in the right way, partly because of our inadequacy."

As she said, "the Federal Republic of Germany was able to manipulate the discontented ones" to achieve the disappearance of the German Democratic Republic.

Honecker considers that the construction of the wall was necessary as "the borders were crossing Berlin" and constituted "a permanent field of dangerous confrontations."

She also regards "Stasi", the secret police, as a "legal service", which "exists in all countries of the world" and "to the extent that the German Democratic Republic had to repel the attacks of hostile forces, it was a necessity."

She thinks that modern Europe is a "work of monopoly capital, an imperialist construction" and underlined that "the powerful countries push the weak ones off the cliff."

Regarding Greece, she said that it was advised to make privatisations based on the model of GDR, something that was "extremely harmful" the country.

Moreover, she expressed concern because, as she said, "the dictatorship of the monopolies is growing and the German imperialism is being upgraded to a ruler of the continent."

Honecker added that she sees "the development of SYRIZA with sympathy", but believes that "we must be realistic", since a powerful force of the oppressed does not yet exist.

She sent a message of solidarity, sympathy and respect to all Greeks and stated: "Greece has survived many difficult tests and I believe that it will overcome this one as well", since "Greeks know how to fight as they have proved in their history."

The full interview is available for subscribers in Greek at ANA-MPA's website.