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Cartoon by Lang on GDR and perestroika (3 December 1988)
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Cartoon by Lang on GDR and perestroika (3 December 1988)

‘Temptation — Governess Honecker: ‘Don't look! That's a porn shop …' In 1988, in response to Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union, the cartoonist Ernst Maria Lang portrays the refusal of the East German leadership to reform the German Democratic Republic.

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Title Cartoon by Lang on GDR and perestroika (3 December 1988)
Document type Cartoon
Source LANG, Ernst Maria. Immer auf die Grossen, Karikaturen eines Unbequemen. München: Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, 1996, p. 134.
Keywords collapse of the communist régime, German Democratic Republic, glasnost, perestroika
Copyright © Ernst Maria LANG
Caption ‘Temptation — Governess Honecker: ‘Don't look! That's a porn shop …' In 1988, in response to Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union, the cartoonist Ernst Maria Lang portrays the refusal of the East German leadership to reform the German Democratic Republic.
Location in the digital library HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1987–1997 The European Union in a Europe in the throes of change >> The end of the Cold War and geopolitical change in Europe >> The Eastern bloc in the throes of change >> The collapse of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe
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See also The resurgence of national identities in the Soviet Union
The collapse of the Communist bloc
European Parliament resolution on the situation in the GDR (12 October 1989)
‘Following Moscow's decisions: Europe_USSR relations' from Europe (5 October 1988)
Gorbachev’s reforms in the Soviet Union
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