Bärbel Bohley
| Bärbel Bohley link (Artist, Dissident) | |
|---|---|
| File:Bärbel Bohley.png Photographed in the Stasi prison Hohenschönhausen 1983 | |
| Born | 24 May 1945 |
| Died | 11 September 2010 |
| Nationality | East German,German |
East German opposition figure and artist. | |
Bärbel Bohley was an East German opposition figure and artist.[1]
Opinions
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All these investigations, the in-depth research into the Stasi structures, the methods with which they worked and still work, all this will fall into the wrong hands. These structures will be studied in detail - and then they will be taken over.
They will be adapted a little in the Federal Republic so that they fit in with a free Western society. They won't necessarily arrest the troublemakers either. There are more subtle ways of rendering someone useless. But the secret bans, the surveillance, the suspicion, the fear, the isolation and exclusion, the branding and muzzling of those who do not conform - that will come back, believe me.
Institutions will be created that will work much more effectively, much more finely than the Stasi. The constant lying will also come back, the disinformation, the fog in which everything loses its contour.” |Is about=Bärbel Bohley,STASI,Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution,Correctiv,Amadeu Antonio Foundation|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate= |Sourced from= |Has sourceDetails=translated from the German |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName= |Has sourceURL=https://philosophia-perennis.com/2020/01/14/baerbel-bohley-das-staendige-denunzieren-wird-wiederkommen/
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“The constant denunciation will come back. The constant lying will come back.
All these investigations, the in-depth research into the Stasi structures, the methods with which they worked and still work, all this will fall into the wrong hands. These structures will be studied in detail - and then they will be taken over.
They will be adapted a little in the Federal Republic so that they fit in with a free Western society. They won't necessarily arrest the troublemakers either. There are more subtle ways of rendering someone useless. But the secret bans, the surveillance, the suspicion, the fear, the isolation and exclusion, the branding and muzzling of those who do not conform - that will come back, believe me.
Institutions will be created that will work much more effectively, much more finely than the Stasi. The constant lying will also come back, the disinformation, the fog in which everything loses its contour.”
Bärbel Bohley [2]