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As the country's former top cop, Honecker enjoys strong support from the East German security services—and from the Soviets, who maintain 20 combat-ready divisions in East Germany. The Russians, in fact, call him "nash chelovyek" (our man). Honecker's only known diversion is hunting, which he does alone. He lives outside Berlin in a villa in the heavily guarded government complex at Wandlitz with Margot and their teen-age son. A Communist diplomat who has visited the Honecker home describes it as "spotless, functional, unimaginative and stiff—just like Honecker."