{"id":2143,"date":"2009-04-24T23:09:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T21:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2009-04-24T23:09:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T21:09:26","slug":"no-dream-panorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"no dream panorama!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a comment <\/a> to my previous post I was asked wether I “want back GDR”.<\/p>\n

here my answer:<\/p>\n

I don’t want to have the former GDR back. <\/p>\n

But I think the bad deeds of e.g. the STASI are not automatically correlated to every GDR-feature. Like e.g. the GDR had a very good waste-management (sero-system) which was neglected in the west<\/a> (images<\/a>) for no good reason. <\/p>\n

The former GDR was not – as it claimed with its name – a german democratic state. I visited the GDR rather often (most of my relatives lived in East Berlin) and in fact GDR-authorities were threatening me already as a ten year old for my political opinions (but thats another story). <\/p>\n

People who were opposing the official politics were suppressed, where the methods ranged from occupational ban to imprisonment (and sometimes execution – according to Wikipedia<\/a> there were 164 death penalties made to the order of the STASI)<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Although torture was forbidden in the GDR (here an excerpt of the GDR constitution<\/a>) some methods of the STASI<\/a>, like sleep deprivation<\/a> could be called psychological torture. Also the conditions within prisons (here a panorama tourr<\/a> through the STASI-prison in Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen<\/a>) could be seen as torture like in particular the socalled water cells<\/a> which were cells without a window and no furniture and 2 cm water on the floor. As a torture not as immediate life-threatening as waterboarding<\/a> but still scary and cruel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a comment to my previous post I was asked wether I “want back GDR”. here my answer: I don’t want to have the former GDR back. But I think the bad deeds of e.g. the STASI are not automatically correlated to every GDR-feature. Like e.g. the GDR had a very good waste-management (sero-system) which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,24,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}