Prodded by the Stasi chief, the Politburo persuaded the Czech government to close its borders to East Germans. |
As if the Stasi were still hovering around him in the guise of tourists and visiting media. |
Remember the Stasi, the secret police who operated in East Germany when it was a communist state? |
In the aftermath, six million files on East German citizens were discovered in stasi archives. |
Since phone-tapping was a rite of passage in East Germany, Rosler feared he would be called to account by the Stasi again. |
Betts seeks to look behind the accepted view of the failed communist state as a totalitarian nightmare in the grips of the infamous Stasi. |