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@ HectorMoffet: @ Petrarchan47: so far, this is all about the Stasi. I suppose it could be expanded with information about Operation Gold and Teufelsberg. Do you have any other ideas about what could be added to it? If not, it seems like a content fork. If the intent is to have a series of articles titled Mass surveillance in country <foo> then just adding Operation Gold and Teufelsberg to the "See also" section of Stasi and creating Mass surveillance in East Germany as a redirect to Stasi should suffice. — rybec 05:22, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks to Rybec for the amazing find of those mail opening machines. Great work! -- HectorMoffet ( talk) 08:13, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
One of the sources [1] states
Although the Landesnachrichtenämter contained the seeds of eventual blanket surveillance, it is important to emphasize that the extent of surveillance at this point was considerably less.
In the other source [2] I only read the specific page that was cited, and it does support the statement in the Wikipedia article, but is silent about surveillance. It says there was a KGB office "in every province (Land) and district (Kreis)".
Is the section meant to provide background information, or is it intended to show that there was mass surveillance carried out by the Soviet Union in East Germany? — rybec 04:56, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
A fact from Mass surveillance in East Germany appeared on Wikipedia's
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@ HectorMoffet: @ Petrarchan47: so far, this is all about the Stasi. I suppose it could be expanded with information about Operation Gold and Teufelsberg. Do you have any other ideas about what could be added to it? If not, it seems like a content fork. If the intent is to have a series of articles titled Mass surveillance in country <foo> then just adding Operation Gold and Teufelsberg to the "See also" section of Stasi and creating Mass surveillance in East Germany as a redirect to Stasi should suffice. — rybec 05:22, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks to Rybec for the amazing find of those mail opening machines. Great work! -- HectorMoffet ( talk) 08:13, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
One of the sources [1] states
Although the Landesnachrichtenämter contained the seeds of eventual blanket surveillance, it is important to emphasize that the extent of surveillance at this point was considerably less.
In the other source [2] I only read the specific page that was cited, and it does support the statement in the Wikipedia article, but is silent about surveillance. It says there was a KGB office "in every province (Land) and district (Kreis)".
Is the section meant to provide background information, or is it intended to show that there was mass surveillance carried out by the Soviet Union in East Germany? — rybec 04:56, 7 February 2014 (UTC)