East German leader Erich Honecker is best known for
a. ordering the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
b. establishing a virtual dictatorship by using the Stasi or secret police in the 1970s and 1980s.
c. endorsing the political unification of West and East Germany in the late 1980s.
d. leading an unsuccessful independence movement from the Soviet Union in 1953.
e. dismantling the Berlin Wall.
b
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