DDR DDR 40'th anniversary celebration 1989.

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The parade starts.

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Line up.

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The special guests tribune.

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The special guests tribune.

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General Horst Stechbarth, commander of the armed forces.

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Attention during the national anthem.

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General Horst Stechbarth in his Soviet made Chaika parade-limousine car.

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General Horst Stechbarth and general Heinz Kessler, minister of defence, at military handover of the the parade.

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The two generals parade cars.

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Erich Honecker, chairman of the central committee of the German Democratic Republic.

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General Heinz Kessler, minister of defence, presenting the parade of the armed forces, to the chairman of the central committee.

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The top guest was Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Military orchestra.

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Military orchestra.

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General Heinz Kessler, minister of defence and Willi Stoph, Chairman of the Council of Ministers at the parade podium.

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The military academies are the first to enter the military parade.

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The East German spectators.