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Cold war front

Published on
October 8, 1999
Last updated
May 27, 2015

I too was a GDR sympathiser. I visited the country regularly, fell passionately in love with an active Communist Party member, worked closely with the brother of Che Guevara's girlfriend - yet still the Stasi refused to make me an offer.

What did I do wrong?

John Bibby Straylands Grove, York

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