The manipulation of truth

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“The romance comes from the ream of a better world the German Communists wanted to build out of the ashes of their Nazi past... the horror comes from what they did in its name”

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“I’ve been having Adventures in Stasiland... I’ve been in a place where what was said was not real, and what was real was not allowed, where people disappeared behind doors and were never heard from again, or were smuggled into other realms”

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“It was in offices where the Stasi truly came into their own: as innovators, story-makers, and Faustian bargain-hunters. That room was where a deal was offered and refused, and a soul buckled out of shape forever.

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