Confinement, Control, and Propaganda Flashcards
stasiland control
t’s the total surveillance that damaged me the worst.
stasiland control
“Alexanderplatz is a monstrous expanse of grey concrete designed to make people feel small. It works.”
never let me go
we were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information.”
never let me go
“ I spot them all over the country, standing on the far side of little playing fields, little white prefab buildings with a row of windows unnaturally high up, tucked almost under the eaves”
freu Paul stasiland
decide against [her] son’
ms Lucy
‘your lives are set out for you’ ‘donate vital organs’ ‘thats what each of you was created to do’ ‘akin to puppy farms’ “futures already decided”
koch is raised
‘to hate americans’
barriers
“unwillingness” to mention “taboo” topics such as the donations. Much like Stasiland, this social barrier existed out of fear of “punishment”