People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same chances. They saw a system that demanded of them sacrifices with nothing but promises for the future.
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…
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.
The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority. - Stefan Heym
The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.
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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