How the Stasi poets tried to win the Cold War
Philip Oltermann’s The Stasi Poetry Circle reveals how the GDR taught its spies to use verse as an ideological weapon.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
Philip Oltermann’s The Stasi Poetry Circle reveals how the GDR taught its spies to use verse as an ideological weapon.
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