The East German dissident Wolf Biermann characterized late Soviet practices as Stalinism with computers - while under Stalin you would get a bullet hole in your

The East German dissident Wolf Biermann characterized late Soviet practices as Stalinism with computers - while under Stalin you would get a bullet hole in your head, in later Socialism you would get a hole in your punch card (to mark you as a politically unreliable) http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-41843129.html http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-41843129.html Now we all have our punch cards back ;-) I still wonder how it all came about: is it just as a preparation for possible future crisis ? are the rulers feeling really that insecure ? is it a real or an imaginary threat ? Isn't it that any power is always trying to extend its reach ? Many questions here.