Since I'm home sick, although I hope going to work tomorrow because I do the bill: asd: I was able to finish this book: "There was once the GDR" by Anna Funder.
In two days I ground about 244 pages.
The book shows the experiences of ordinary people and agents of the Stasi who have lived in the GDR historical parable. I do not think that we can understand, for those who lived it, what this means. According to some unofficial estimates, between spies and traitors, the Stasi agent boasted every 6.5 inhabitants and took care to catalog and write every single detail of people's lives, even though these were not contrary to the regime ...
There was a perverse mechanism so who was secured was to be considered "enemy" even though he was indifferent to the regime, the general monitoring the words "enemy".
A monstrous machine that worked on the basis of collaboration, often forced, of citizens to protect their loved ones worked with the Stasi, even though there have been willing informers.
The book collects the evidence in the form of a diary than an essay, some ordinary people, or not at all repentant Stasi agents who have found themselves taken by gear, a surreal and terrifying journey.
I must say that I was deeply impressed. The Stasi
archived and cataloged everything, so its archives had become something enormous and were blown to pieces in a very meticulous when it was clear that the GDR was over. They destroyed the archives but kept the order, so it is possible to reconstruct the documents. From the Book of Funder Zindorf to know that there is a group of people involved in the reconstruction of the archives, you could use a software but it seems that the cost is very high, something like that will take 375 years to complete the job. Thousands of people will never know because they have not found a job, what happened to their loved ones, or because their lives have been investigated so careful not to leave anything private.
good reading.
I need to read something different now ...
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