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Roland Bleiker

Nonviolent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany (1993)

Nonviolent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany (1993) by Roland Bleiker

INTRODUCTION

We were more afraid of the people than the people had reason to be afraid of us.
(Statement by a member of the much feared Stasi, the East German State Security Service)

"We are the people" was the main battle cry of the nonviolent struggle that...