Basically the “my friend lived under communism and said it sucked” argument. They claim that there were rations in GDR and you had to wait ages for gasoline

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlM
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    2 years ago

    Nonetheless, it must be emphasized that the tactics of the East German secret police generally consisted of openly attempting to persuade people not to take actions that damaged the State (Riecker, Schwarz, and Schneider, 1990), and that tactic was in stark contrast to the West German secret police strategy of doing everything possible to penalize people for any anti‐government opinions (Schultz, 1982).

    (Source. The otherwise readworthy Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? denies that persuasion was a default tactic, but says absolutely nothing about the work that The Trimuph of Evil cites.)