Secret Police

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/7/2023
  

  Cracking Stasi Puzzles is Key to Some Germans Finding the Truth

  by Katja Hoyer

  With an informant for every 90 citizens, the East German secret police left behind 16,000 sacks of shredded documents. Can information technology help reconstruct a record of what happens when a government commits to spying on its own citizens? 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/21/2023
  

  Russia's Invasion Threatens Soviet Secret Police Archives in Ukraine—and Families' History

  by Megan Buskey

  During a brief recent window of time, records of Soviet secret police activities in Ukraine, including voluminous files kept on ordinary civilians, have become available to researchers. While pro-Russian politicians once kept them classified, Russian munitions now threaten their physical existence.