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Stasi files reveal Katarina Witt was willing accomplice
The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^
| 05/05/2002
| Tony Paterson
Posted on 05/04/2002 5:35:36 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Thinkin' Gal
Hmmm, Did she have a phone in her skate?
To: Jeremiah Jr
One ringy dingy...
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posted on
05/09/2002 7:45:55 AM PDT
by
cibco
To: L.N. Smithee, Pokey78, wattsmag2
The biggest point in all this to me is that people under the communist rule, being that in the Soviet Union, East Germany, or elsewhere, had to sell at least part of their soul to get freedoms taken for granted here. You don't see them like you don't see air. But there, you had to compromise, sometimes a lot, just to get so little. And when you are selling your soul, you are being the one who is paying the ultimate price for it. People who got high enough to enjoy some freedom were turning from normal and kind human beings into the last SOBs in the process. This is one of the lesser known effects of the ultimate corruption of the Soviet System.
Not surprising also her statement about Stasi as a good reliable partner. When the whole system is so rampantly inefficient, one can find a relief in dealing with organization that at least works.
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posted on
05/09/2002 9:07:13 AM PDT
by
Tolik
To: Pokey78
If she did not "rat out" anybody or otherwise cause grief, it looks like she mearly parlayed an otherwise completely oppressive situation into one that, to some extent, worked.
I'd be a little slow to condemn.
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