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| 06.1989 | Gorbachev in West Berlin, viewing the Wall: "Nothing is eternal." | |
| 04.06.1989 | P | Elections in Poland leave Solidarno¶ć with 35% of the seats in the Sejm, winning all they were allowed to contest, and 99 of the 100 freely contested seats in the Senate. Turnout is low at 62%, below that for a referendum on economic reform in 1987. |
| 13.06.1989 | H | Opening session of the Party-opposition talks in Hungary, with the Opposition Round Table, Party, quangos and President of Parliament Mátyás Szűrös occupying the four sides. Opening for the opposition, lawyer Imre Konya: "We must now carry out peacefully the task of three unfulfilled Hungarian revolutions." |
| 16.06.1989 | H | Nagy and four associates and a further coffin symbolising the Unknown Insurgent are buried with full honours after a ceremony on Heroes' Square. |
| 18.06.1989 | P | Second round run-offs in the Sejm elections in Poland. |
| 27.06.1989 | DDR | Honecker visits Moscow. Gorbachev presses for reforms in the DDR. |
| 06.1989 | DDR | "Demokratischer Aufbruch" is founded. |
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