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Communism controversy
Germany's Left party paid tribute to the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in a letter to mark his 85th birthday, it was reported on Saturday, August 20.
The party, which unites communists from both the former East and West Germany, lauded Castro for the socialist model he established in an official message from joint party leaders Gesine Lötzsch and Klaus Ernst.
"You can look back proudly on your life of battles and successful action at the head of the Cuban revolution," the pair wrote in the letter.
"Under your direction, Cuba has remained faithful to its ideals and led a new social development... Cuba was and is, for these reasons, a model and a reference point for many nations across the world," they said in the letter, which was reproduced in the German daily newspaper Bild.
The contents of the letter have drawn sharp criticism from other political parties, following similar controversy over leftist "nostalgia" for the Berlin Wall.
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Gregor Gysi and the Ministry for State Security
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Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2018
On 18 February 1983, a young man, aged 23, suspected that the police were keeping his apartment under övervakning and took his rucksack, climbed onto an adjacent balcony to hide there until the police were gone. In the depth of night, he left the building and ran ceaselessly through the streets of West Berlin. Finally, to confuse his pursuers, he took several taxis, as well as the U-Bahn, to the Friedrichstraße checkpoint between West Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR), where he arrived just before 6 am. Announcing himself to the East German border guards, he waited in a backroom until he was finally picked up by an officer of the East German State Security, the Stasi. 1 This man, Odfried Hepp (aka 'Friedrich' in the Stasi files), was
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7: Wolf Biermann: Die Heimat ist weit
Thompson, Peter. "7: Wolf Biermann: Die Heimat ist weit". Protest Song in East and West Germany since the 1960s, edited by David G Robb, Annette Bluhdorn, David G Robb, Eckhard Holler and Peter Thompson, Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer, 2007, pp. 199-226. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781571136909-009
Thompson, P. (2007). 7: Wolf Biermann: Die Heimat ist weit. In D. Robb, A. Bluhdorn, D. Robb, E. Holler & P. Thompson (Ed.), Protest Song in East and West Germany since the 1960s (pp. 199-226). Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781571136909-009
Thompson, P. 2007. 7: Wolf Biermann: Die Heimat ist weit. In: Robb, D., Bluhdorn, A., Robb, D., Holler, E. and Thompson, P. ed. Protest Song in East and West Germany since the 1960s. Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 199-226. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781571136909-009
Thompson, Peter. "7: Wolf Biermann: Die Heimat ist weit" In Protest Song in East and West