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| 02.05.1989 | CS | Unofficial May Day demonstration in Prague. 1 000 take part. Stanislav Devaty, Charter 77 is arrested, along with BBC Central Europe correspondent, Misha Glenny. He is released in Prague in the evening. He says he was hit on the face, had his arms twisted and tape recorder smashed on the ground. |
| H | Hungary begins to dismantle the Iron Curtain, at the instigation of Foreign Minister Gyula Horn. | |
| P | 10 000s march through Warsaw, ending with a meeting to support Solidarity candidates in next month's elections | |
| 07.05.1989 | DDR | Local elections in the DDR with a 98.78% turnout and 98.85% vote for the candidates. For the first time in its history, individual citizens (from oppositional groups) participate in the count and claim massive ballot fraud. Results in the DDR are falsified. 1.15% of votes, according to official results, were cast against the United list. 250 raise objections about the result. 20% vote against Krenz. |
| WTO | The Warsaw Pact retracts the Brezhnev doctrine of limited sovereignty for member countries. (For the first time at a pre-Helsinki report meeting, régimes do not compare notes in advance - a split between Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary on one side and Romania and Bulgaria on the other). | |
| 08.05.1989 | DDR | Over 100 are arrested in Leipzig in protests against the local election results. |
| 20.05.1989 | YU, HR |
The Social Liberal Union is formed in Croatia |
| 30.05.1989 | H | Hungarian Communist Party declares Nagy's hanging for treason illegal, carried out after a show trial. Spokesman László Major says the 118-member Central Committee overturned more than three decades of official party dogma. "It can already be determined that it was a fabricated political trial .. Imré Nagy's execution was certainly judicially illegal." Hungary's ambassador to Moscow, Sandor Rajnai, who led the reinvestigation of the trial asks to be relieved of his Central Committee post. Imré Pozsgay envisages a "new type of party based on European Socialist and social democratic ideas." |
| YU, KOS |
An ethnic Albanian is shot and several wounded by security police around the village of Podujevo, Kosovo after hundreds call for more independence. First use of tear gas and firearms since March. A EC delegation is in Kosovo to investigate those disturbances. | |
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