Stasi

[doodab]

I read somewhere that West Germany had four times the crime rate than East Germany. So clearly the Stasi were doing something right.

The osties didn't have anything worth nicking.

[threaded]

I read somewhere that West Germany had four times the crime rate than East Germany. So clearly the Stasi were doing something right.

I read somewhere that habitual criminals were given a map and instructions on how to get to the west...

[Menelaus]

The Lives of Others (German film, ace) was on BBC4 earlier this week.

[NotAllThere]

... I'd recommend another work by Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward, a novel which tells the story of a small group of cancer patients in Uzbekistan in 1955,..

Read it.

[NotAllThere]

I read somewhere that West Germany had four times the crime rate than East Germany. ...

And maybe a hundred times as many non-criminals in prison.

[ratewhore]

I often look at these stories and try to see the other side of the coin. This one, however, is truly disturbing.

No, your avatar is truly disturbing...

[stek]

Solzhenitsyn was a genius, an arrogant one but with what he went through....

'One Day of Ivan Denisovich' is my favourite, however I cannot get into Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment nearly killed me...

[DS23]

....however I cannot get into Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment nearly killed me...

it does what it says on the tin then?

[Mich the Tester]

The only thing we need now is to be forced to drive crappy little plastic cars and the resurrection of the DDR is complete.

[DodgyAgent]

It was reckoned that the Stasi make excellent taxi drivers. Apparently all you need to do was give them your name and they know where you live.