Today’s Tribune column: “Working for Herr Honecker.”

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BAYLOR: Working for Herr Honecker

Twenty years ago this very week, I was at work polishing V.I. Lenin’s shoes.

The footwear belonged to a gargantuan statue of the Soviet Union’s founder standing at the entrance to the Volkspark Friedrichshain in East Berlin, capital of the German Democratic Republic — GDR, or “East” Germany.

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