The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil

by Michael Malice

The community had been succumbing to filth and pollution as factories spewed smoke into the atmosphere as the populace gradually fled to seek refuge elsewhere. Meeting at the 800-year-old St. Nicholas Church, protestors lit candles every Monday evening and began to march. Soon thousands joined, if only because there was so little else for them to do. Claiming that the “Chinese comrades must be lauded” because they “were able to smother the protest before the situation got out of hand,” Stasi leader Erich Mielke insisted on East Germany having its own Tiananmen Square massacre. “The situation here now is comparable and must be countered with all means and methods,” he told his subordinates. But the East German leadership was still torn to the point of paralysis. By September 18, 1989 the Leipzig protestors numbered 15,000 marchers. The Stasi arrested a hundred of them, running over others as they sped away. But that did little to stop the masses, and did much to further alienate the population from the regime.