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The Stasi parallels are frightening.

Pasco: “Make their lives miserable until they move or sue.”

Stasi: "The security service's goal was to use Zersetzung to 'switch off' regime opponents. After months and even years of Zersetzung a victim's domestic problems grew so large, so debilitating, and so psychologically burdensome that they would lose the will to struggle against the East German state." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung



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