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“I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.”

Quote by Markus Wolf

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Markus Wolf, born on January 19, 1923, and died on November 9, 2006, was a senior intelligence officer of the East German State Security Service (Stasi) during the Cold War. He was renowned for his exceptional contributions to intelligence work. more

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