Category Archives: 9th-10th Oct 1991

Lenin Statue Is Losing Berlin Battle  

Berlin (Reuters) – Protected by the police and armed with a new court order, workers on Friday resumed the dismantling of Berlin’s giant Lenin statue, a survivor of the 1989 revolution that ended Communist rule in the former East Germany.   Policemen scuffled earlier with 40 demonstrators who tried to prevent the workers from erecting…

Walesa Chooses a Prime Minister  

Warsaw (Reuters) – President Lech Walesa of Poland will ask Bronislaw Geremek, a former Solidarity adviser and a leader of the Democratic Union party, to form a government, a presidential spokesman said Friday.   “The president thinks Professor Geremek should start political consultations aimed at forming a government,” the spokesman, Andrzej Drzycimski, said by telephone…