After the Wall came down....there was a East German civil rights actvist who wrote up a assessment of the 'wrongs' of old DDR/East Germany, and how the future would go. Words/test by Bärbel Bohley:
“All these investigations, the thorough exploration of the Stasi structures, the methods they worked with and still work with, all that will fall into the wrong hands.
People will examine these structures most meticulously, only to take them over. They will adapt them a little, so that they fit into a free Western society.
They won’t necessarily arrest the troublemakers either. There are more subtle ways to render someone harmless.
But the secret bans, the surveillance, the suspicion, the fear, the isolating and excluding, the branding and silencing of those who don’t conform, that will come back, believe me.
They will create institutions that work much more effectively, much more subtly than the Stasi.
The constant lying will come back too, the disinformation, the fog in which everything loses its contours.”
Interesting vision of the future.
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