The Stasi parallels are frightening. Pasco: “Make their lives miserable until they move or sue.” Stasi: "The security service's goal was to use Zersetzung to

The Stasi parallels are frightening. Pasco: “Make their lives miserable until they move or sue.” Stasi: "The security service's goal was to use Zersetzung to 'switch off' regime opponents. After months and even years of Zersetzung a victim's domestic problems grew so large, so debilitating, and so psychologically burdensome that they would lose the will to struggle against the East German state." [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung