Confronting the Stasi Past

Poland will perhaps become the first country in Eastern Europe in which the change in system is resolutely carried through to its final consequences," columnist Istvan Baba comments, after the new Polish government announced plans to reorganise the state security services. "In all the countries undergoing the process of transformation, Stasi bosses were given the task of integrating themselves into democracy under a new name. As a result, almost all the Stasi officers and officials have remained in positions in which they have performed impeccably over the past five decades. Even today, this force is still stretching its tentacles into all areas of social, economic and political life."

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