Lest we forget - 17-June 1953

Stasi prison June 17, 1986

Rudolf is devastated.

He’s got less than two weeks left.

We might share the same fait and be sent back home.

To make matters worse: today we commemorate the 17-June 1953 events.

This is different from the bad moods around new year’s eve.

There's is pure anger and hatred today.

Leipziger Strasse Berlin 17 June 1953 during the uprising

The guards might know it.

No boots in the hallway today.

No uniforms between the cells.

Trying to comfort Rudolf.

We’re making plans to meet outside the gate on my release date.

Not much fun but the rest of the night we plan several actions for that day.

13-August, my release date, an anniversary like today’s.

More than a 100 people are reported to have died on 17-June 1953 during the uprising.

Nobody has proof or any documentation but the West is busy broadcasting it every year.

Lest we forget...

And we will get out of here, that’s a promise.

If not this year then the next one or the one after that.

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Background developments during the Stasi prison time that I was not aware of: The Stasi State Headquarters Dept. XX takes a decision (that has something to do with my dad, my hero!).

*Testimony -> Start. This blog entry is part of a linear narrated testimony of the contemporary witness Jens Thieme who was imprisoned 1985-1986 as a political prisoner in various GDR prisons by the GDR Ministry of State Security. Stasi prison, Stasi jail, Stasi detention.