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Both questions arise from the fact that virtually everyone in East Germany cooperated with, or was compromised by, the enforcing agencies of a totalitarian state. Some 2.3 million people -- effectively, the elite -- were members of the Socialist Unity Party, the communists. Then there were the 85,000 full-time employees of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi), as well as its 109,000 still mostly anonymous informers. Finally, thousands of journalists, judges, mayors and policemen gave at least lip service to what they knew to be a gigantic...
Hitler's National Socialist Party, which had only 17,000 members in 1926, metastasized to 120,000 in 1929, to 1 million in 1930. Wealthy industrialists began contributing handsomely. In the Reichstag, the Nazis held an insignificant twelve seats until the elections of 1930. By 1932 they had 230 seats, the largest bloc in the Reichstag...
...leader's performance as a party boss was a brutal reminder that while the countries of Central Europe have removed Communists from positions of any real power, the Balkans remain dominated by an old order dressed up in new suits. That fact was reinforced last week when the Bulgarian Socialist Party, formerly the Communist Party, emerged victorious in the first free elections since...
While Romanians assessed how badly their political environment had been poisoned, Bulgarians were giving their Communists a second chance. The Socialist Party took 47% of the vote in the first round of elections despite a strong showing by the opposition Union of Democratic Forces in the capital of Sofia. The U.D.F., an alliance of 16 parties and movements, finished second with 36%. When tens of thousands of U.D.F. supporters demonstrated in Sofia against the Socialist victory, police wisely did not intervene...
...another embarrassing needle stuck into De Michelis, who has become something of a political pincushion. The Socialist politician started out badly last year when he was the lone European Foreign Minister to attend a political fete thrown by Muammar Gaddafi -- and was then snubbed by the Libyan leader...