It’s December 1984, a week before Christmas. Tina Kirschner and Barbara Kahlke, two 17-year-olds from West Germany, are sitting on a creaking red bus headed for the socialist part of their divided country. They’re on a school trip, and the mood is boisterous: almost 40 teenagers singing along to Duran Duran. But once they cross the heavily guarded border, reality hits. The world they’re entering feels alien and forbidding.
Brave and naive, but one understands their motives. The Stasi: covert police who recruited weak citizens to assist them. They destroyed careers and controlled the economy. Serial right abusers of the most depraved character. Dishonest and cowardly Sounds like a place I know
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