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And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics and hampered the development of economics - and the country would fall back further and further in the economic competition with the West.

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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…

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Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.

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If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.

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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…

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The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

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You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

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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 …

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I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

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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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