Description Includes pictures Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading " T]he Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic.
Despite its notoriety, the legacy of the Stasi is cont.
Films such as Das Leben der Anderen ("The Lives of Others") encapsulated post-unification attitudes and conceptions of both life in East Germany and the activities of the Stasi.
In an era of totalitarian countries dominated by repressive state agencies, the Stasi stood out for its size, and the sheer breadth and depth of its surveillance.
Aside from the KGB, the 20th century\'s Most notorious spy agency was the Stasi, which was instrumental in the History of East Germany.
Whether it\'s associated with the Russian Civil War\'s excesses, Stalin\'s purges, and even Vladimir Putin, the KGB has long been viewed as the West\'s biggest bogeyman during the second half of the 20th century.
In fact, it is often used to refer to the Soviet state security Agencies throughout its history, from the inception of the inception of the Cheka (Extraordinary Commission) in 1917 to the official elimination of the KGB in 1992.
It preferred to paralyze them, and it could do so because it had access to so much personal information and to so many institutions." - Hubertus Knabe, German historian The KGB is one of the Most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become synonymous with the shadowy and often violent actions of the Soviet Union\'s secret police and internal security agencies.
The Stasi didn\'t try to arrest every dissident.
Considering this, East Germany was a very modern dictatorship.
The goal was to destroy secretly the self-confidence of people, for example by damaging their reputation, by organizing failures in their work, and by destroying their personal relationships.
The word is difficult to translate because it means originally "biodegradation." But actually, it\'s a quite accurate description.
It was called Zersetzung, and it\'s described in another guideline.
Description Includes pictures Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading " T]he Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic
