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In Russia, a woman reported a blue blanket on a yellow balcony to the police. Shortly after, she received thanks for her vigilance and the blanket was taken down.
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In Russian Belgorod, a woman reported a blue blanket on a yellow balcony to the local security department. She wrote that "measures need to be taken".
Shortly after, she received thanks for her vigilance and a report that the blanket was taken down, accompanied by a photo.
Russian paranoia is blooming.
I just went to the Stasi Museum in Berlin last year. Holy fuck that was frightening.
In general, the Stasi were fucked up, but their ability to lie/brainwash/indoctrinate and make citizens believe that they had an actual duty to report their neighbors was hella insidious.
On top of everyone just being afraid that the Stasi was spying on them so they just said whatever they could about Joe and Tanya down the street to get out from under the Stasi eye.
My...how quickly we forget as a society. The Stasi were actually around in my lifetime, and I'm only mid-30s.
The Stasi was the Gestapo 2.0, everything they couldn't do in the Third Reich the perfected in the GDR.
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend The Lives of Others. Definitely in my top 10 of all time.
8.4 on IMDB