Mar 25, 2024
In this long awaited return of the show the gang revisits East Germany, with new Proles co-host and host of Actually Existing Socialism - Tony - giving us a guide through attempts by Western capitalist nations to subvert the East German state from the post-war period to the installation of the Berlin Wall. Spoiler alert: It all goes back to the 5 Ds!
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Episode Sources:
"Exploiting and Securing the Open
Border in Berlin: the Western Secret Services, the Stasi, and
the
Second Berlin Crisis,
1958–1961"
The Prelude to Nationwide Surveillance in East Germany"
“Spying On Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany 1945-1961”
"Address given by Nikita
Khrushchev on the GDR and Berlin (Moscow, 10 November 1958)"
"GDR: An Historical Outline"
"Britain and the Occupation of Germany, 1945-49"
"Killing Hope"