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  • The Huntsman: Brown's Stasi is Watching You & Your Family skip to main | skip to sidebar

    Brown's Stasi is Watching You & Your Family 2008

  • Inspee declares that they call her Stasi for short, but I don't believe that; most likely they call her Anna, but that's so common.

    A Young Girl's Diary 1923

  • Inspee declares that they call her Stasi for short, but I don't believe that; most likely they call her Anna, but that's so common.

    A Young Girl's Diary Anonymous 1897

  • Privacy campaigners have compared the trend to the activities of the 'Stasi' - the infamous East German secret police.

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • Now Germany wants the files back, to add to its extensive archives on the GDR's ministry for state security, commonly known as the Stasi.

    Stasi files row as Britain refuses to return documents to Germany 2011

  • But it I wasn't until former agents of the East German secret police, known as Stasi, began to I talk -- and a new noncommunist East German government began to cooperate -- that the hunt made headway.

    Bad Time For Terrorists 2008

  • A Captain (Ulrich Mühe) in the corrupt secret police known as the Stasi (East Germany) is employed to spy on a celebrated playwright (Sebastian Koch) and his talented actress girlfriend (Martina Gedeck).

    The Lives of Others…Best Foreign Film. Ulrich Mühe a revelation! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008

  • Loss of support from the Stasi was a major factor in the dissolution of these groups.

    March 2005 2005

  • "Take a film like 'The Lives of Others,' for instance," Mr. Liefers said in an interview recently, referring to the Academy Award-winning film about an agent for the Ministry for State Security, known as the Stasi, spying on a playwright.

    NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS KULISH 2009

  • I seem to recall Stasi-style 'Black Guards' in the TV thing that I didn't remember from the book, but perhaps I'm mistaken.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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