SRL for [nearly two decades of iron - handed leadership during which Mr. Honecker , now 77 years old , built East Germany into the most economically advanced nation in the Soviet bloc]: Mr. Honecker 's ignoble fall culminates [nearly two decades of iron - handed leadership during which Mr. Honecker , now 77 years old , built East Germany into the most economically advanced nation in the Soviet bloc] .
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