“Zersetzung is a technique to subvert and undermine an opponent.
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“Zersetzung is a technique to subvert and undermine an opponent. The aim was to disrupt the target's private life so they are unable to continue their activities towards the state. The Stasi would devise a strategy to ‘disintegrate’ the target's personal circumstances—their career, their relationship with their spouse, their reputation in the community. The goal was to ‘switch off’ regime opponents. After months and years of Zersetzung a victim's domestic problems grew so large, so debilitating, and so psychologically burdensome that they would lose the will to struggle against the East German state.”
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Matthijs De Smedtreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit "the Stasi assured itself of access to the target's living quarters and left visible traces of its presence, by adding, removing, and modifying objects such as the socks in one's drawer, or by altering the time that an alarm clock was set to go off"
The damn Stasi are still around then
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Matthijs De Smedt last edited by
@anji “No they’re not,” I say as I slowly push a framed photo off your mantelpiece