The Race Against the Stasi by Herbie Sykes

Author:Herbie Sykes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2014-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

My writing to Sylvia wasn’t a way of rebelling as such, but I was conscious of the fact that I was exercising a basic human right. I hadn’t intended it to be like that, but nor had I created the political situation. I figured they were probably being opened, so in some respects it was a bit of a game.

For example, on a Wednesday night Sylvia and I would both listen to the West German hit parade. You could receive it in the GDR, but technically you weren’t supposed to listen to it because it was ‘western’. Lots of people did, though, and she and I would write about the songs we’d heard. In itself it was something you could get away with. They tolerated it, but only if you were discreet about it and didn’t publicise the fact; they didn’t want an epidemic of people enjoying themselves, you know?

Anyway, as far as I was concerned I wasn’t going to give it up for anybody.

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