East Germany

Other times East Germany came up

1. He was looking for maybe dissident users of meter or half rhymes that indicated. Or just anybody that basically wasn't socialist realism or showed any sort of freedom of thought. How interesting. Yeah. Because they did also, they infiltrated punk groups. They were very threatened by punk music when it came in in East Germany. So they started the infiltration. I feel threatened by that still. Sure. They infiltrated everybody.

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2. He didn't even turn up in the end. They just got a festival for nothing. I read a book we see about the Stasi Poetry Circle. Your work and leisure was really tied up in East Germany. You know, you would go on holiday with the people you were with. Sounds awful. You know, all your leisure activities were bound up with the company that you work for and stuff.

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3. Yes. I didn't realise how what a threat Elvis was at the time. God, people went nuts over Elvis. They thought he was going to impregnate every woman on earth. There were riots in East Germany in 1959, in about 14 East German cities and towns. There then had to be crackdowns. Leipzig had a crackdown. Leipzig is where the Lipsy dance, the state one is from. The Lipsy's from the Latin name for Cypsey.

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4. These unofficial collaborators and Stasi so he would get all the poetry these young Stasi officers would be writing their poetry in their poetry circle and then he'd be looking for dissidents among them and feeding it back and was he looking through the medium of the poetry? So he was looking for maybe dissident uses of meter or half rhymes that indicated anything that basically wasn't socialist realism or showed any sort of freedom of thought how interesting yeah because they did also the infiltrated punk groups. They were very threatened by punk music when it came in in East Germany. I feel threatened by that still.

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