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willvarfar on April 2, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How the secret police tracked my childhood

The security services of the eastern bloc were terribly inefficient; just imagine how effective they could be today!

qwerta on April 2, 2014 [–]

The funny part is there are more police-men now, then during communism.

Fuxy on April 2, 2014 | [–]

With so many informants why would you need police men.

Statistically every 10th person you met at that time was most likely as intelligence service informant.

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