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From the Jewish Museum to the Stasi Museum and From Berlin Straight to Havana

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.10.2013 | World
Read More: Human Rights, Cuban State Security, Stasi Museum, Political Prisoners, Holocaust, Cuban Ministry of the Interior, Cuba, Stasi, Jewish Museum, East Germany, World News
Yoani Sanchez

The Jewish Museum in Berlin. Photo: Yoani Sanchez The building is shaped like a dislocated Star of David. Gray, with a zinc-clad facade and little ...

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Dictator's Widow Brands Regime's Victims 'Criminals'

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 04.03.2012 | World
Read More: Communism, Video, Iron Curtain, Gdr, Eastern Europe, Stasi, Margot Honecker, Erich Honecker, Berlin Wall, Cold War, German Democratic Republic, Fall of Berlin Wall, Soviet Union, World News

Margot Honecker, the widow of East Germany's communist dictator Erich Honecker, has given a defiant interview in which she defends her late husband an...

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The Past That Awaits Us; What Will They Tell Their Children?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Pedro Luis Ferrer, Stasi, Ladies in White, East Germany, Timothy Garton Ash, Cuba, Havana, Gdr, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Today's guest post is from Reinaldo Escobar's blog: Desde Aqui/From Here. Image source: marporcuba.org The Past That Awaits Us By Reinaldo Escobar ...

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Revealing Secrets

Belinda Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Berlin Wall, January 15 2009, Cia, Barack Obama, Storming of the Stasi, East Germany, Cold War, Berlin Wall Anniversary, Stasi, George Bush, Stasi Legacy, January 15 1990, World News
Belinda Cooper

East Germans stormed the Stasi 19 years ago today and began to dismantle the secret police apparatus. As a new administration takes over in the US, we might take to heart the lessons learned about openness.

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