The ‘Purple Witch,’ Someone Else The Left Can be Proud Of
World News • July 2008 • Views: 242
Margot Honecker, 81, widow of hardline East German ruler Erich Honecker, received an award this weekend for services to the Nicaraguan revolution. Known as the “purple witch” in Germany, Honecker basked in the praise heaped on her and her late husband.
The ceremony was widely reported in the German press. “She’s still kissing left-wing rulers,” wrote mass circulation Bild. “They celebrated the purple witch as if the horrific Communist Party regime and the killings at the Wall had never happened.”