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The end of the story sounds suspiciously like Zersetzung: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Zersetzung http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Zersetzung
by jazzyb 13y ago
The end of the story sounds suspiciously like Zersetzung:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Zersetzung http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Zersetzung
- skore 13y agoI recently read an article about the Stasi. I was strangely fascinated by Zersetzung - as I understand it, one of the main objectives was to supply other people with evidence against your own sanity. "[R]eplacing one variety of tea with another" - No really, that and other ridiculous things happened. Agents of the Stasi went into homes and did that. It is designed to make you seem like a lunatic when you try to explain yourself and get help. Imagine that, being subject to a procedure designed to make you feel utterly helpless and alone. You are right and everything is real, but everything real is now designed to seem strange to other people. I wonder why wikipedia translates it as "corrosion" or "undermining". The term Zersetzung is more often used as meaning a biological process of degradation. It's dissolution. It's being eaten away by acid.