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HOW did socialist Germany’s Ministry of State Security replace the Gestapo as the bogey man to frighten liberals out of their skins?
And why is it that the confected reputation of an organisation set up by anti-Nazi activists and International Brigade veterans to defend socialism and working-class power is mobilised to frighten socialists out of their politics?
Since the dissolution of socialist Germany, brand management has turned the Stasi into a media trope for lazy journalists whenever the hyper-individualism of contemporary capitalism meets resistance.
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