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Obsessed with detail, the Stasi entirely failed to predict the end of Communism, and with it the end of the country. Between 1989 and 1990 it was turned inside out: Stalinist spy unit one day, museum the next. In its forty years, ‘the Firm’
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“What chance did I stand between the Communists on one side and the Establishment on the other”
― The Ipcress File
― The Ipcress File
“I don’t do sun. I’m delighted with the lack of rain and anything over is over-indulgence. I don’t trust it. Makes you yearn. For things that cannot last.”
― The Guards
― The Guards
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