![]() ![]() Anna Funder perhaps assumes that some of the excessive and not necessarily logical rules are a result of the Stasi time, but it seems that they can be found all over Germany. Some of the stories in this book are horrifying, but some of them are funny and remind me of a typical expat rant. ![]() Then, when 'The Black Channel' came on, the workers had to struggle to stop the power supply from collapsing under a backsurge as everyone, simultaneously, switched off their sets." First, everyone tuned in at once to the movie, so they went into overdrive. "For a long time, workers in the power stations were on alert every Monday night. A propaganda channel, 'The Black Channel' was broadcast in the east from 1960 with commentaries on pre-war films which they screened themselves and 'Das Rote Optik', a West German channel criticising socialism. I've been in a place where what was said was not real, and what was real was not allowed, where people disappeared behind doors and were never heard from again, or were smuggled into other realms." This really is a fascinating book, written 7 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany.Īnna Funder discovered that people in the east were aware that they were being manipulated. "I've been having Adventures in Stasiland. ![]()
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