!January 13, 1993 – former leader of the GDR and first secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich Honecker was released from Moabit Prison in Berlin, where he was imprisoned by the FRG authorities after his extradition from Russia by Boris Yeltsin and then-Minister of Justice N. Fyodorov.

In 1989, a bourgeois counterrevolution took place in the German Democratic Republic, with the support of Western intelligence agencies and the tacit approval of Gorbachev. In late autumn, criminal prosecutions began against the country’s former leaders, including Erich Honecker. In 1991, the former GDR leader left Germany and fled persecution in the USSR.

Following the August counterrevolution in Russia, right-wing forces led by Boris Yeltsin seized power. They had no use for the former leader of the GDR, the ideological communist Erich Honecker. On July 29, 1992, by decision of President Yeltsin and Justice Minister Fedorov, Honecker was deported from Russia to West Germany, where he was arrested at Berlin Tegel Airport and transferred to Moabit Prison, where he had already been imprisoned in 1935, during Hitler’s reign.

Despite health problems and constant psychological pressure, Honecker did not renounce his communist beliefs and continued to fight. After 169 days in prison, he was released from Moabit Prison on January 13, 1993, by the German Constitutional Court due to serious health problems. Following his release, the former GDR leader left for Chile.

Erich Honecker died of a serious illness on May 29, 1994. Despite the loss of his homeland and constant pressure, the former leader of the GDR remained a staunch communist and anti-fascist until the end of his days. His name became a symbol of fortitude and a banner for the fight against bourgeois counterrevolution in Germany.

Source -> https://kprf.ru/history/date/240400.html