Talk:Mass surveillance in East Germany

Content fork?
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  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. &mdash; rybec   05:22, 30 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Great feedback, Rybec!
 * I agree that the article's scope needs to be expanded beyond the activities of more than one organization, otherwise, why not just call it "Mass surveillance by the Stasi" and/or merge it into Stasi.
 * I'll try adding Operation Gold and Teufelsberg, and other non-stasi surveillance in east Germany. That said, I'm fine if this winds up being merge back-- it just didn't seem appropriate to omit EastGermany and NorthKorea from the drafting process. :)  --HectorMoffet (talk) 07:21, 30 January 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ I've added extensive content about both soviet and western surveillance. --HectorMoffet (talk) 18:10, 30 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Brilliant.  petrarchan47  t  c   22:15, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Great find on the mail surveillance machine photos!
Thanks to for the amazing find of those mail opening machines. Great work! --HectorMoffet (talk) 08:13, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Soviet surveillance section
One of the sources 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 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? &mdash; rybec   04:56, 7 February 2014 (UTC)