“And as the Stasi began to pay more and more attention to the new network, they made the same mistake they had when trying to break up the punk scene a few years before: they sought to identify leaders and focus on undermining them. The Stasi assumed every organisation had a top-down structure like the Stasi, like the Party, like the dictatorship.” PunkBerlinEast GermanyDdrGdrEast BerlinStasi Book:Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall Source: Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall