I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.
If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down. - Stefan Heym
If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.
- Stefan Heym
If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an examp… - Stefan Heym
If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an examp…
Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it. - Stefan Heym
Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.
The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority. - Stefan Heym
The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.
These were the things that the government supplied you with - in turn, of course, demanding obedience. But you must not imagine that it was a constan… - Stefan Heym
These were the things that the government supplied you with - in turn, of course, demanding obedience. But you must not imagine that it was a constan…
I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it. - Stefan Heym
I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.
A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West … - Stefan Heym
A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West …
You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it. - Stefan Heym
You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.
People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where they wanted… - Stefan Heym
People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where they wanted…
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