I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field of media and the field of culture.
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…
- 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. - 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.
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.
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…
The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority. - Stefan Heym
The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.
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.
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 …
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.
And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a comfortable existence. That … - Stefan Heym
And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a comfortable existence. That …
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