FILE - In this Wednesday, May 27, 1987, file photo, Soviet Communist Party leader Mikhail Gorbachev, left, and East German State and Communist Party leader Erich Honecker exchange kisses at Schoenefeld Airport in East Berlin.  Gorbachev encouraged Honecker and other Communist leaders in Central and Eastern Europe to follow his lead in launching liberal reforms and took no steps to shore up their regimes when they began to crumble under the pressure of forces pro-democracy.  (AP Photo, File) P