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House GOP Grills Christopher Wray … YAWN

Christopher Wray is a shameless, arrogant LIAR. The FBI is the modern-day equivalent of the Stasi. Yet the House GOP is content to preen for the television cameras … “GOP grills FBI Director,” “Wray on the Hot Seat,” blah, blah, blah.

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Stasi: Zersetzung is American Cancel Culture

When Zersetzung is upon you or your spouse, is suddenly beset by serial misfortune. Perhaps you are being cancelled.

Stasi: The East German Secret Police: An Overview, written on January 30th summarized how the “Ministerium für Staatssicherheit,” (MfS) operated from 1950 to 1989. Colloquially known as the, “Stasi,” this was one of the most effective and repressive secret police agencies ever to have existed.

Zersetzung: Biodegradation

From the 2007 Movie, “The Lives of Others.”

The fifties and sixties in the GDR brought secret arrests, repression, physical torture and imprisonment. German civil law required warrants for detention and surveillance. Despite that, the Stasi regularly surveilled its citizens, arrested them surreptitiously and held them without charge or cause.

The 1970’s saw monumental concern from the Party apparatchik of the GDR over its international image on the world stage. Consequently, the Stasi sought to retool their operations to be more subtle with their repression. The birth of, “Zersetzung,” sought to provide the East German State with a more positive face in the international community.

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Stasi: The East German Secret Police. An Account

Hubertus Knabe was one of the East German citizens surveilled by the Stasi. Hubertus Knabe has called for a more outspoken anti-communism in German society, and has particularly called upon the SPD party to identify with its anti-communist tradition as part of its democratic legacy. He has pointed out that social democrats were the first … Read more

Stasi: The East German Secret Police. An Overview

Surveillance States were long used to repress citizens by State Actors. An examination of the Stasi will illustrate for us the parallels we are now seeing in the words and deeds of our government, Big tech and other corporations in America. But first…a historic overview of the Stasi.

Stasi was the colloquial name for the East German Secret Police. More formally, the, “Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, “(MfS) Ministry for State Security. Additionally, Stasi was referred to as, “Staatssicherheitsdienst,” (SSD) or, State Security Service. The Stasi was the internal Security arm of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). This was the East German Secret Police that operated from 1951 until 1989 until the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Seal of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)

The MfS motto effectively conveyed their mission: “Shield and sword of the Party.” (Schild und Schwert der Partei)Party, referring to the “Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, (SED) or, the, “East German Communist Party,” formed in April of 1946 with the merger of the Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

The SED was the single dominant party for the German Democratic Republic. A Marxist-Leninist political party that remained in power from its formation post World War II and remaining in power until its dissolution in 1989.

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