After 29 years following the fall of The Berlin Wall, the State Security Service (Stasi) acts still as a global synonym for the modern police state. My own secret file 1214/87 contained meticulous photocopies of correspondence and index cards to record the evidence the Stasi found while searching through my mail.
We were transparent beings. I could not believe the absurd pettiness and the sheer volume of manpower involved in collecting, checking and vetting the nation’s mail.

Obscuring the sensitive information from pages of my own secret Stasi file 1214/87

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