
The Grey Men
Pursuing the Stasi into the Present
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Narrated by:
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B. J. Harrison
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By:
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Ralph Hope
About this listen
By 1990, the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During 40 years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Overnight, almost 100,000 Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access to highly personal information, found themselves unemployed. This is the story of what they did next.
Former FBI Agent Ralph Hope uses critical insider knowledge and access to Stasi records to track and expose ex-officers working everywhere from the Russian energy sector to the police and even the government department tasked with prosecuting Stasi crimes. He examines why the key players have never been called to account and, in doing so, asks whether we have really learned from the past at all. He highlights a man who continued to fight the Stasi for 30 years after the Wall fell, and reveals a truth that many don’t want spoken. The Grey Men comes as an urgent warning from the past at a time when governments the world over are building an unprecedented network of surveillance over their citizens.
©2021 Ralph Hope (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLCWell narrated, well written.
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Insightful look into the organs of repression of a failed state.
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Let’s not forget how the progeny of nomenclature, turned into powerful businessmen overnight, meanwhile the bating had to pay billions of foreign borrowing during communism
Great impassioned view of fall of communism and the mimicry of the dreaded nomenclature and their progeny in united Germany
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Great historical insights but bias is clearly on show
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I did, but I had no idea they still operate!
Eye opening and shocking
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I really didn't like the reading style but still very well worth the time spent listening.
A terrible warning for the future
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A Must Read
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Propagandist hogwash
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