Sir, I appreciate your friendly attitude towards my hapless country very much. Still, I am not sure whether the Greens received much support from the East German government. The Greens are not orthodox Communists, but more decadent neo-Communists, thus they were mostly a West German phenomenon.
Still, I think many Stasi people got off too lightly- just as many Nazis did. The difference was that in 1945, about 25% of working-age German men were dead, and millions more were in captivity, so the Occupying Forces had to make do with the people who were still there.
In 1990, it would have been good to send at least the worst of the Stasis to the Big House for an extended time…😡
I was thinking that Merkle and her ilk should have been frogmarched into a forest and had bullets put in their heads but Germany is so paralyzed by its history that they weren’t willing to save themselves.