On Wednesday afternoon we visited the former headquarters of the East German security service, or Stasi. Our tour guide was an author who grew up in East Germany and whose father was arrested and imprisoned for not following close enough to the communist party line. The name (I can’t remember his name) found great irony and deep satisfaction in touring American students through the office of the former Stasi chief. He made a lot of quotable comments. For instance: “There is no such thing as peace in a dictatorship. Peace in such a place is merely a state of undeclared war on the state’s population. Therefore we should not argue against intervention on the basis of peace.”
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Who is the really handsome guy on the right?? I like him! Thanks for posting pictures of my hubby on your blog. It's really neat to see you guys at actual places over there. I've been able to put pictures to places Jesse has mentioned to me. Keep the pictures coming!
Leslie
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