Alongside the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev and Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski, he is the youngest of the last surviving leaders of an Eastern Bloc nation as of 2014.
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He succeeded Erich Honecker as leader of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and head of state in October 1989, but was ousted just under three months later amid the collapse of the communist regime.
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