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Ah, life in the idyllic German Democratic Republic! (lemmy.world)

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[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if true, but a Romanian I was working with said that their phones were randomly monitored. At some point his mom and some friend was talking over the phone and they are like "when is the next bus for the town now again?" and the agent goes "they go every 30 minutes today" or similar into their phone call.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

I believe that's an old joke from the period, though the Romanian Securitate did monitor people and phonecalls to an even greater degree than the German Stasi did.