#Stasi

[framonariatlas]

Berlin, Stasi Museum

#photography #soviet #communist #germany #berlin #stasi #wall #mauer

[tomorrowusa]

There is no statute of limitations for being a murderer on behalf of a totalitarian régime.

A member of Communist East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, is finally being brought to justice.

Now, aged 80, the ex-lieutenant in the Stasi has gone on trial accused of shooting dead a Polish man who tried to flee communism 50 years ago. Through his lawyer, he denied the charges of murder in court on Thursday. His name has not been officially confirmed. But according to prosecutors, while working for the Stasi, he allegedly shot Czeslaw Kukuczka in the back as he tried to cross from East Berlin to the West. [ ... ] A group of West German schoolgirls, who were returning from a school trip to East Berlin, say they saw a man in a raincoat and sunglasses shoot him. That man, say prosecutors, was the former Stasi officer on trial in Berlin on Thursday. East German and Polish officials later attempted to cover up the case, not even telling Kukuczka's family what happened. The family received an urn to bury, but never the full story. During the 1990s, after German reunification, there were multiple investigations, but never enough evidence to track down the killer. [ ... ] At least 140 people were killed trying to leave communist East Germany while the Berlin Wall was up. It is rare for those responsible to face justice. Until now, those who have been prosecuted were generally accused of manslaughter, not murder.

Communism was and still is crap though tankies continue to act as apologists for the USSR and its successor the Russian Federation.

People risked their lives and sometimes engaged in foolish schemes so they wouldn't have to spend their lives under Communist totalitarianism.

The prosecution of that Stasi agent should serve as a warning to Putin's own secret police in Russia. The murderers of Alexei Navalny will someday be held to account.

Speaking of Putin, for almost five years he was an officer in the Soviet secret police (KGB) stationed in East Germany which was then a Soviet satellite. After German unification, his old Stasi ID card was discovered.

Putin didn't work for the Stasi but he worked with the Stasi. His ID, with his signature in German, gave him access to Stasi facilities.

#east germany #the cold war #berlin wall #communism #stasi #deutschland #ddr #deutsche demokratischen republik #czesław kukuczka #berliner mauer #alexei navalny #vladimir putin #штази #коммунизм #КГБ #владимир путин #добей путина #алексей навальный

[leder-fotograf]

prison

#Gefängnis #Berlin #Hohenschönhausen #Stasi #GDR #DDR #prison #police #Polizei

[strathshepard]

Simon Menner: Top Secret, 1993, via IDEA: “A look within the German Stasi archive documenting the work within the agency. Everything from how to put on a disguise to spotting pro juvenile characteristics towards the West (loving Madonna seems to be a no no...).“

#simon menner #DDR #East Germany #Stasi #espionage #black and white #barber #mustache #blur #books #communism

[annoyingthemesong]

SUBLIME CINEMA #629 - THE LIVES OF OTHERS

When asked in an interview how he prepared for the role of GDR Stasi captain Wiesler, the late Ulrich Muhe simply said ‘I remembered’. He was an East German actor and activist who himself was spied on and betrayed by a former wife; he didn’t have to travel far to evoke the perfect performance he delivered in this masterpiece. 

#film #movie #filmmaker #films #cinema #Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck #the lives of others #filmmaking #movies #cinematography #germany #german cinema #stasi #communism #east germany #east german #east german actor #cinema of germany #great film #cinephile #academy award #oscar #police state #gdr #berlin #berlin wall #east berlin

[justmebeingdifferent33]

Here's why you shouldn't label everyone claiming to be targeted as paranoid.

Call them crazy all you want. The proof is in the pudding. Source : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung Also see : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi Find my recent poetry and other posts about such feelings, and why I feel this has been happening to me for most of my life on the following links. Moving forward : https://www.benwestwooduk.com/post/moving-forward-with-awareness-poemMy…

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#britain #east germany #Poem #Poetry #stasi

[notadeathinthefamily]

I'm thinking about the movie Das Leben der Anderen, 2006 by Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck .

«Before the fall of the Berlin wall, East Germany's secret police listened to your secrets»

#east germany #stasi #east berlin

[brantheblessed]

#FBI #Gulag #Stasi

[a-tale-never-told]

Historical Document#2: The Stasi Biography.

//Greetings everyone, this is Mod Sam. I present to you the second history review of the bunch, the Stasi review. Now I'm pretty sure that most of you were expecting this review instead of the Soviet one, given that the Stasi are currently the biggest threat to the blog as of this season, It would make sense to do an analysis on them and what their tactics and operations are. But due to my poor organizational skills, I instead did the Soviet one first, and that review was... disappointing to say the least, but now I understand why it wasn't as successful: it wasn't relevant to the main story yet.

//That's certainly not to say every historical post should be connected to the story, but given the stakes that we have now, it makes perfect sense to talk about them now and explain why they are so dangerous. How I didn't recognize that earlier is beyond me.

//But anyway, I think I did slightly better here in comparison to the last review, where it got way too overcomplicated for anyone to understand, aside from a few aspects. But I think I managed to make it understandable enough for you guys to understand. An added bonus is that the review is shorter, thus you don't have to spend hours reading it, so that's a drastic improvement.

//Given that I've seen a lot of Stasi-related asks during the story, consider this a firsthand survival guide on the Stasi, and what they do exactly firsthand. Consider them a more terrifying version of the KGB and the North Japanese secret police force, at least for now.

//I just want to apologize for the lack of activity on this blog for a while, aside from answering asks and me complaining. I've calmed down since the last time I made that rant, and I eventually realized that I need to take it easy with you guys and not force you because if there is anything people don't like, it's being told what to do, and I feel ashamed that I tried to do that. I hope you all can accept my forgiveness and just no that I meant no ill intentions towards you guys. I was just... so stressed that day and I pretty much lost it.

//But besides that, I'm ready to possibly get back into the story. If all goes to plan, I should have the next story chapter by around Friday or Saturday at the latest. But in the meantime, you have this file to occupy your attention while I start working on the next chapter, so be vigilant for a new chapter coming out soon.

//To close this post off, let me show you the ID card of Vladimir Putin while he was in the Stasi. And before you ask, yes, this is 100% real and accurate, this was actually what he looked like when he was younger. Viewer discretion is advised.

//At the very least, he had some hair, so I'll give him that.

//This shall probably be the last historical post I do for now, as I prefer to continue working on the story since these posts aren't going to really matter to anyone unless we focus on the actual plot itself. I know I just said that before, but I wanted to add more context as to why. Plus, it's pretty much a slog for me to write these long essays in Google Docs since I highly doubt anyone here reads a Google Doc for a review. Still, though, I hope you enjoyed these reviews as that's all you're going to get untill the end of this arc or even the season, it's up to my own volition on how I shall conduct this type of strategy.

//This is Mod Sam from A Tale Never Told, signing out for now. Have a great rest of the day everyone ^^.

#mod talks #history post #stasi #historical analysis #a tale never told #worldbuilding

[bauerntanz]

Chile vor 50 Jahren und die deutsche Mitschuld

#Chile - heute vor 50 Jahren und die deutsche Mitschuld.

Heute ist es genau 50 Jahre her. Am 11. September 1973 putschte das Militär unter General Augusto Pinochet gegen die demokratisch gewählte linke Regierung von Präsident Salvador Allende (Foto oben in der Mitte). Im Zuge der Bombardierungen des Präsidentenpalastes La Moneda nahm sich Allende an jenem 11. September 1973 das Leben. Pinochet beendete die chilenische Demokratie und schuf eine brutale…

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#Augusto Pinochet #BND #Cartos Altamirano #Chile #Christian Bergmann #CIA #Colonia Dignidad #MDR #Norbert Blüm #Salvador Allende #Staatsstreich #Stasi #Tom Fugmann #Victor Jara

[playitagin]

・ギュンター ・ギヨーム[Günter Guillaume.  1927年2月1日 -  1995年4月10日]、ドイツ民主共和国（東ドイツ）の軍人、スパイ。西ドイツ首相ヴィリー・ブラントの秘書になりすまして諜報活動に従事、ドイツ史上最も成功したスパイと言われる。1974年、その発覚によりブラント首相が辞任に追い込まれ、「ギヨーム事件」と呼ばれる。

#- Apr.10.1995. #Günter Guillaume #Willy Brandt #Federal Republic of Germany #Deutsche Demokratische Republik #Ministry for State Security #Stasi

[little-catholic-diva]

The man tried to sue her husband, but the District Court in Philadelphia threw out the case earlier this summer, and it was picked up again by Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice.

Joe Biden’s DOJ just looks for things like this to punish anyone that doesn’t agree with leftist idiocy. What about the pro-life clinics that were burned to the ground? Absolutely nothing has been done about that. Two tiered justice system, DOJ and FBI are just the gestapo of the Democrats.

#pro life #pennsylvania #fbi #gestapo #doj #stasi #two tiered justice #double standards

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I wonder what my government file(s) look like.

In East Germany, the Stasi surveiled and kept files on every single citizen, over 16 million of them, an Orwellian police state on a shoestring budget that still managed to be the most in-depth "intelligence agency" of the 20th century. Now imagine they had infinite resources and 21st century technology, the internet, cell phones, facial recognition, and you can begin to picture the horror shows underlying the United States government. You KNOW they have files on you, and you KNOW they're as thick as textbooks. In Germany today all the Stasi files are public information, so Germans can look themselves up and see what the secret police had on them, but America will take these secrets to the grave. If the country ever collapses, I guarantee you that goons in suits would sooner fry servers and burn files than admit the extent of the government's invasion of our privacy. Best case scenario, our files will be classified for centuries long after we're all dead, so only future historians will know how much worse things are today than we can even begin to imagine.

#government surveillance #surveilance #no privacy #privacy #orwellian #police state #surveillance state #east germany #stasi #ministry for state security #secret police #files #cia #fbi #nsa #lmnop #ymca #asdf #cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz

[taunuswolf]

#Spione #verräter #V-leute #Stasi #falscher name #doppelte moral #aphorismus #diktatur #Ekel #Ehrlichkeit #Offenheit #heuchler #Betrüger

[superstarfighter]

I've been to Berlin for a few days to visit my friend Anna. (Aug 16-18, 2022)

#berlin #stasi #vsco

[j-august]

Berger made a habit of referring to himself in the third person, as if he were writing small dramas with himself as the protagonist: 'Uwe Berger said', 'Uwe Berger rejected this', 'he conceded a point to Uwe Berger'. Uwe Berger became an institution, an organ of state, and by that logic any attack on Uwe Berger also became an assault on the legitimacy of the GDR. In July 1975, he submitted a note to the Stasi in which he complained about recent criticism of his poems from both East German authors and West German journalists: a review in the left-leaning Frankfurter Rundschau had dismissed his latest anthology as too solemnly lofty. Berger smelled a conspiracy, 'a coordinated approach' by Western capitalists and Eastern dissidents.

Philip Oltermann, The Stasi Poetry Circle

#quote #quotation #Philip Oltermann #The Stasi Poetry Circle #Uwe Berger #report #dramas #protagonist #reviews #reviewers #criticism #conspiracy #approach #Stasi #I think we would all like to sic security services on mean reviewers #GDR #lofty