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Take a look at how many dubious Israeli companies are there in sphere of surveillance, remote hacking and other amoral activities. History seems to be apparent

• luckylion 7y ago
  The StaSi wasn't 2+ generations away though, the SU (and with it the GDR) only collapsed in the late eighties. I do believe that most people aren't appalled by what was done, they are appalled by what was it done for. "To secure the rule of the party" sounds bad. "To end human suffering" sounds much better, and we tend to have a thing for rationalizing why it's righteous (or at least necessary) to do it this time.