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Article: Control. (communist government of East Germany used kidnapping to control dissidents)(Eastern Europe - Communism)
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- Canada and the World Backgrounder
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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Arrest and imprisonment without trial were common behind the iron Curtain; torture and forced labour were normal functions of state policy. For those people who still refused to toe the line there was always state-sponsored murder. Now, another of the police states' tricks for controlling the population has come to light.
The former East German government punished dissidents who were parents by kidnapping their children and then ...