Was the Stasi as scary as it sounds?

>>74892915
Not if you weren't conspirating against the revolution

imagine a commie tier shitty oppressive government with german tier competence

spoopy

>>74892915
How will capitalistic "spies" ever compete?

>By 1995, some 174,000 inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IMs) Stasi informants had been identified, almost 2.5% of East Germany's population between the ages of 18 and 60.[13] 10,000 IMs were under 18 years of age.[13] From the volume of material destroyed in the final days of the regime, the office of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records (BStU) believes that there could have been as many as 500,000 informers.[13] A former Stasi colonel who served in the counterintelligence directorate estimated that the figure could be as high as 2 million if occasional informants were included.[13] There is significant debate about how many IMs were actually employed.

>>74892915
Take a visit to the Stasi Museum in Berlin to find out.

>>74892915
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bba3tryTJbs

The innocent have nothing to fear; if you have fear, then you are guilty, capitalist scum.

>>74893083
kek this

>>74892915
Yes, it was fucked up. You had to be a member of the party, otherwise you were suspicious. Your letters got checked by default, no matter who you are. You got supervised and possibly spied on, if you tried to make holiday in a western country, if possible at all. It could be that your neighbor was spying on you. You couldn't trust anybody because of this. It is estimated that they had 200k - 2mio spies or people working for the Stasi.

>>74892915
Even their logo looks like it came from the 1984 novel.