‘Structural Ennui?’ Peter Bernstein’s Secret Stasi Call-Sign?
Most of my readership must be aware of the role of the evil red gestapo known as the Stasi.
We have looked at their activities often enough…
…at how the State Security Ministry played a key role in enabling the collabo regime to hold East Germany in servitude for fifty years, determined quisling curs who tortured and imprisoned hundreds of thousands…and murdered more than a few, as well.
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The Guardian tells us today that ‘the Stasi employed more than 90,000 regular workers and 174,000 informal ones, or IMs, whose role was to spy on friends, family and work colleagues and report information to designated handlers.’
Which brings us straight to the reason for their news story, the ‘revelation’ that this person…
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….Holder Friedrich, was one of their running dogs, who operated ‘under the codename “Peter Bernstein.”
So what’s the big deal about this one particular S.O.B?
Only that he owns one of Berlin’s major media, the leftist newspaper, the Berliner Zeitung.
The Guardian doesn’t say where ‘millionaire’ Comrade Friedrich got funds to buy a newspaper, but his embarrassed hacks are now scrambling to find out ‘why their new owner had not made known to them his contact with the Stasi when he was in the process of buying the papers..’=.
To paraphrase the delightful English 1960s call-girl, Mandy Rice-Davies…
“Well, he wouldn’t, would he?”
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Now that he’s been found out, and the extent of the consequences of his wicked work revealed, of course, the informer’s squealing like a stuck pig.
Friedrich has not denied the claims but has urged his critics to view them in context. He said that like many thousands of East German citizens he had been forced to cooperate with the Stasi after a failed attempt to escape the country. Friedrich said he was told he could forgo years in a Stasi prison if he took on the role of an IM.
Well, as already noted, he would say that.
But now that the latest Stasi records have been dragged into the light of day, it seems that Friedrich reported on fellow soldiers with whom he worked during military service in the armed forces, the NVA…
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…..documents showed he had delivered a number of heavily incriminating reports on his colleagues.
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I wonder why?
Watching Friedrich wriggle, like the worm he is, should be an agreeable spectator sport, but having no previous knowledge of the fellow, I can only draw my own conclusions, and I will.
But in the meantime I have to say that anybody who talks like a pseudo-intellectual is not my cup of tea.
I refer to what he’s quoted as saying when he got hold of the old DDR newspaper, and proclaimed that his aim was to ‘act as a counterweight to “structural ennui” in Germany as a whole.’
‘Structural Ennui?’ – stuck-up hogwash terminology, for sure!
How come he uses language that must be as meaningless to normal German folks as it is to you and me?
Would it be cruelly fanciful to ask if ‘structural ennui’ is a Stasi code for ‘MISSION ACCOMPLISHED’ issued long ago to ‘Peter Bernstein?’
If so, a trifle premature!
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Annelie Neumann 21:52 on November 19, 2019 Permalink |
Hard to understand every English word you use but you say that English people also do not understand this Stasi-Man’s word-use.
I think there are many Stasis in position of influence, from top to bottom in Germany.
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Jerry Jerman 22:18 on November 19, 2019 Permalink |
As you say, fanciful but not so out of place.
My own curiosity is towards how many other media people are ex Stasi because they have the Stasi style.
Censorship of information that may stir the people, like with alien crimes.
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