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Peteri Szerlagi
Aug 15, 2023, 11:58:05 AM8/15/23
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One of the most profitable activities was the sale of political
prisoners to Western authorities. Of the eighty-seven thousand
political dissidents who were arrested in the DDR between 1963 and
1989, about thirty-three thousand were sold to Western authorities.
West German authorities also paid the DDR to issue more than two
hundred thousand emigration permits. KoKo operations were done in
secret, and prisoners often did not know why they were released. This
shows that population surveillance and state secrecy often go hand in
hand. Still, knowledge of the prisoner exchanges started leaking out
after 1972 and discredited the DDR regime significantly.
from https://www.eurasiareview.com/22072023-how-east-germanys-stasi-perfected-mass-surveillance-oped/
prisoners to Western authorities. Of the eighty-seven thousand
political dissidents who were arrested in the DDR between 1963 and
1989, about thirty-three thousand were sold to Western authorities.
West German authorities also paid the DDR to issue more than two
hundred thousand emigration permits. KoKo operations were done in
secret, and prisoners often did not know why they were released. This
shows that population surveillance and state secrecy often go hand in
hand. Still, knowledge of the prisoner exchanges started leaking out
after 1972 and discredited the DDR regime significantly.
from https://www.eurasiareview.com/22072023-how-east-germanys-stasi-perfected-mass-surveillance-oped/
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