iet Union's conduct during World War Il, the 1917 Russian Revolution, and the Soviet Union's suppression of uprisings in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany during the Cold War.” In each case, the most serious and respected historical accounts have been written by foreign scholars, due largely to the pre

the street, and breaking into homes to steal files and tap telephone lines. In the 2006 Academy Award-winning film The Lives of Others, for example, East Germany’s Stasi police use listening devices to gather information to blackmail intellectuals to assist in the eradication of dissent. East Germany was not the

Chinese leadership. The Tiananmen Square massacre still plays an outsize role in Germans’ public perception of China as it fell on the same year that East Germany began to open up. Thus, instead of launching a PR campaign to play on German skepticism of the United States (for example), as China does elsewhere,

occupation zones, the living conditions were greatly different in each one. Between 1949 and 1961, about 2.5 million people fled from Soviet-occupied East Germany. Barricades and barb wire was placed to stop people from fleeing but that did not stop 19-year-old border guard Hans Conrad Schumann. A crown in West