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May 09, 2007
East Germany's secrets
In 1989 and 1990, as East Germany swirled down history's toilet bowl, its secret police -- the Staatssicherheit ("Stasi") -- shredded truckloads of documents they hoped to later burn or destroy. But they never had the chance,m and the shreddings were preseved in storage. Now, the German government has committed funds needed for this brain-meltingly complicated jigsaw puzzle to be sorted out by a computer program.
Stay tuned. It is a bizarre fact of political life that Communism is now regarded by many on the left (or plain imbeciles) to be somehow chiq and progressive. The Stasi's files are likely to be a reminder of the stupidity of this.
Posted by bill at May 9, 2007 09:27 AM
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