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  1. Stasi

    The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS) or State Security Service (Staatssicherheitsdienst, SSD), commonly known as the Stasi (IPA: [ˈʃtaːziː]), was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies to have ever existed. The Stasi was headquartered in East Berlin, with an extensive complex in Berlin-Lichtenberg and several smaller facilities throughout the city. The Stasi motto was "Schild und Schwert der Partei" (Shield and Sword of the Party), referring to the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED) and also echoing a theme of the KGB, the Soviet counterpart and close partner, with respect to its own ruling party, the CPSU. Erich Mielke was the Stasi's longest-serving chief, in power for thirty-two of the GDR's forty years of existence. One of its main tasks was spying on the population, mainly through a vast network of citizens turned informants, and fighting any opposition by overt and covert measures, including hidden psychological destruction of dissidents (Zersetzung, literally meaning decomposition). Its Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (German: Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung) was responsible for both espionage and for conducting covert operations in foreign countries. Under its long-time head Markus Wolf, this directorate gained a reputation as one of the most effective intelligence agencies of the Cold War. Numerous Stasi officials were prosecuted for their crimes after 1990. After German reunification, the surveillance files that the Stasi had maintained on millions of East Germans were laid open, so that any citizen could inspect their personal file on request; these files are now maintained by the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. STASI

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Stasi is ranked #43438 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Stasi surname appeared 497 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Stasi.

    93.3% or 464 total occurrences were White.
    3.8% or 19 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2% or 10 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of stasi in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of stasi in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of stasi in a Sentence

  1. Bodo Ramelow:

    I must think of the people who have been retraumatized by my candidacy. People who sat in Stasi jails, whose lives have been destroyed.

  2. William Binney:

    Oct 2001, NSA and the US government started adopting procedures, techniques and processes that Soviet Union and Stasi and all countries behind iron curtain were using.

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