Abstract
We had a state. Then we had the Party to try to make the state work. Then we had the State Security to try to make the Party and state work. And still it didn't work.
An East German quoted by Timothy Garton Ash, The File
The relationship between the communist structures and the Securitate was similar to that between the brain and the hand. The brain was the Communist Party, the hand executing the orders was the Securitate.
Senator Ioan Moisiu Romanian, Christian Democrat
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