Barrel Aged Mysteries: The Stasi Puzzle
Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Brewstilled, we conclude this set of Barrel Aged Mysteries by discussing the Stasi. Known as the shield and sword of the party, the Stasi maintained East Germany’s communist regime's power by tracking, spying on, and suppressing the civilian population through a massive network of secret informants and pervasive surveillance. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Stasi agents panicked and attempted to destroy their massive surveillance archives to hide the identities of their informants. Because their industrial paper shredders broke down under the immense…
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