In the early mornigh hours of August 13, 1961, the top secret top-secret operationwas carried out by the military and police, under the direction of the future head of the German Democratic Republic, Erich Honecker. ... Early Saturday evening police were summoned to their barracks without explanation. ... The planning group issued envelopes marked "Top Secret" to all company commanders. Secret Police immediately took up posts at all major intersections betweed the soviet and Western sectors. ...

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Stalin was unhappy with this so he sent diplomats (few) or just sent secret police or army units to deal with resisting cities, towns, or villages. In 1928 only 1.7% of the peasants were on collective farms but after the army or secret police came and "persuaded" them the total went up, in March 1930 there were 58%. ...

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He noted that time is working against us--although living conditions in Cuba are deteriorating, Castro is tightening police state controls within the area. ... Kennedy was assassinated, he died knowing secrets that would remain tightly held for decades to follow. ... Newly declassified documents show that in the months preceding Kennedy's death, White House emissaries engaged representatives of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Kennedy's arch-enemy, in a series of quiet contacts and secret exchanges. For decades, the CIA's top secret postmortem on the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion ha...

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Would you like it if you were forced to think and act in a certain way? Leaders in countries such as Germany during WWII, used manipulation and brute force to control and lead the citizen's to follow them - no matter what. The United States and other countries didn't feel that they could just stand ...

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In 1934 to 1939 during Stalin's "reign of terror" Joseph had his secret police send over 25 million people to the gulags and over 1 million executed and 7 million died in the gulags , these people were sent to the gulags and murdered because Stalin was paranoid of enemies and conspirators so he had whoever he thought was suspicious send to the gulags or murdered. ...

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