János Kádár, First Secretary of the MSzMP (25 October 1956 - 22 May 1988)

Todor Zhivkov, General Secretary of the BCP (March 1954 - 10 November 1989)

Nicolae Ceauşescu, General Secretary of the PCR (22 March 1965 - 25 December 1989)

Gustáv Husák, General Secretary of the KSČ (1971 - 17 December 1987)

Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of the Republic of Poland (18 October 1981 - 29 July 1989)

Erich Honecker, East German Head of State (29 October 1976 - 24 October 1989)

Mihail S. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the CPSU (11 March 1985 - 24 August 1991)