East German Doping Victims Die 10 to 12 Years Earlier

Re:East German Doping Victims Die 10 to 12 Years Earlier – p... by onetimemanytime on Sunday July 15, 2018 @04:45AM (#17534403)

I assure you that I don't need to read about "socialism" anywhere, grew up in it. And it was even worst than East Germany. What people need to understand is that the state had the hammer and the nail, you had no recourse. They had a thousand options to force you to do whatever they wanted to; including to rat on your family members. If you did something "subversive" your entire extended family suffered, and you were blamed by them too.

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Re:East German Doping Victims Die 10 to 12 Years Earlier – p... by ItsMe000001 on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @06:26AM (#17548626)

So just like the US today, for example when you become the victim of asset forfeiture.

The very first time I visited the US a few years after German reunification after two and a half months on the road (literally) my final thought was "beautiful, but what a police state". Yes, the "free" US of A. I chose to live there later - a contradiction? Not really, it was a compromise I was willing to make, up to a point - I did return to Europe in the end when I could have stayed, a Green Card was possible.

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Re:East German Doping Victims Die 10 to 12 Years Earlier – p... by severino on Sunday July 15, 2018 @07:27AM (#17534764)

I know, although I don't think prosecuting dissidents was invented by the 20th century socialists. By the way, may I know which was that place you grew up in?

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