• don@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    No one actually cared, but at least they felt good about painting rocks.

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      2 months ago

      So, you know more about this. Great! Can you please tell me about that story?

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        2 months ago

        Sure! Like they said, it just felt good to do something that they felt the police couldn’t control or understand. From OP’s perspective, they needed to be able to exercise control over those that were controlling OP. Easy to understand.

        That said, the police and Stasi are (given the time) tasked with prosecuting and attacking far more than what OP could have known about, and given the relatively playful nature of children in even some of the most dire circumstances, the police and Stasi didn’t have limitless resources to chase down something that, over time, produced no significant threat.

        Both the police and the Stasi were wary and paranoid, but even they have their limits, and they weren’t completely stupid. They knew they had to devote their resources to far likelier threats.

        As OP said, she wanted to feel in control, and no one can really blame them. OP felt good, and that’s what matters.

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          2 months ago

          Thanks for your answer. Sorry, I really don’t want to come across like a duchebag asshole. But this sounds more like a general guess of what has happened or how the Stasi might have operated in your opinion (plus some armchair psychology that kinda rubs me the wrong way).

          I literally just woke up and thought you might have some actual insight on this particular case?

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          Well I was there, and I can tell you the Stasi were confused af. Got a nice giggle out of it

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          You are not criticizing the OP, I guess, because you acknowledge their point, that it was meaningless, but it was entertaining to distract the Stasi. But you are criticizing the OP, because you think the Stasi were so competent?

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            Surely the point is that the OP couldn’t possibly have known what the authority thought about their painted stones, unless:

            1. they had a personal contact, which is quite the omission

            or

            1. the authorities were putting up posters around town, interviewing door-to-door etc
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              2 months ago

              Cops going around and asking about purple rocks would cause a tiny stir. A kid would be aware of that and entertained. This is pre- internet and It’s Soviet culture. I’m not supporting the Soviets, but people talked to each other, which is generically quite positive.

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                Ok, I guess this is a matter of opinion, but ‘cops going around asking people about some purple rocks’ just doesn’t pass the sniff test for me

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      2 months ago

      It’s fascinating that people have found your comment inherently negative when it is literally just the truth.