Never Mind the Stasi
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09/24/20 • 49 min
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East Berlin, 1983. A teenage punk rocker finds himself in a Stasi interrogation cell. The choice is simple: inform on his friends, or go to prison. Hari travels to Berlin to meet the punks and spies whose cat and mouse game in the last years of the GDR predicted the privacy wars of today.
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East Berlin, 1983. A teenage punk rocker finds himself in a Stasi interrogation cell. The choice is simple: inform on his friends, or go to prison. Hari travels to Berlin to meet the punks and spies whose cat and mouse game in the last years of the GDR predicted the privacy wars of today.
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Pushkin. The place is East Berlin, the year nineteen eighty three. We're in an interrogation room in the offices of the Ministry of State Security known as the Stasi. There's a filing cabinet, a dirty neck curtain at the window, a view outside of gray concrete blocks. In the middle of the room. There's a cheap wood veneered desk. On it as a phone, an intercombox with an array of cool buttons, and a big old fashioned reel to reel tape recorder.
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