707:"Die Wahrheit öffentlich machen Ein früherer Parteisekretär rechnet mit dem SED-System ab Der SED steht, rechtzeitig zur 40-Jahr-Feier der DDR, ein neuer Dissident ins Haus. Elf Jahre nach Bahro klagt ein Genosse die Parteiführung öffentlich an, sie halte sich nur mit Hilfe eines brutalen und allgegenwärtigen Polizeiapparates an der Macht, die Stasi sei "der Garant der Sozialversicherung" für die Gerontokraten im Politbüro"
918:"Ende der DDR: Gorbatschow war an Stasi-Übernahme durch KGB interessiert: Skurriles vom Untergang der DDR: Nach SPIEGEL-Informationen wollte Michail Gorbatschow im Jahr 1990, dass der KGB die Auslandsspionage der Stasi und das gesamte IM-Netz übernimmt. Die sowjetische Bestandsgarantie für die DDR hat der damalige Kreml-Chef schon vor dem Untergang des Landes widerrufen"
490:, but Henrich turned down that job along with an invitation to take a government post as secretary of state in the Ministry of Justice. Henrich evidently thought he might have independence issues or become a "figleaf" with a high-profile post in the East German judicial-political establishment. To maximize legitimacy, such jobs should go to an "outsider".
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Henrich deeply and he slowly became increasingly disillusioned with the East German regime and its Soviet-style Socialism, composing several highly critical essays (which remained unpublished). He would later recall his disenchantment, which had set in and then developed ever since
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was held. After this Rolf
Henrich was satisfied that his own contribution to the Round Table exercise had been successfully completed. In November 1989 the de facto ban that seven months earlier had prevented him from working as a lawyer had been revoked and he was by now free to return to work at
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arrest and subsequent deportation, but twelve years on Rolf
Heinrich was much more analytically pessimistic about the way ahead for Socialism in the German Democratic Republic than Rudolf Bahro had been. In East Germany Henrich was expelled from the ruling SED (party) and excluded from the
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when he was officially reprimanded for "revisionism" and "psychologizing the law", and suffered the withdrawal of a previously agreed research scholarship. He was also required to change the subject of his dissertation, now addressing the subject "The next tasks of Soviet power"
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where it received wide coverage in the broadcast and print media. The book's publication evidently came as a surprise to the authorities. It presented a devastating and detailed criticism of a state where socialism had not progressed beyond the "larval stage"
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Heinrich's book had already received both within and outside the German Democratic Republic and did not arrest him "for political reasons".
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was convened to work through the practical steps needed for German reunification. Rolf
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felt free to operate outside the law. In some ways it was a conscious follow-up to "The
Alternative", the publication of which in 1977 had led to
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publishing conglomerate to set up a pan-regional daily newspaper called "Die
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had to be abolished. There had been some suggestion that the institution might be reconfigured as a new "National
Security Agency" (
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