Yesnt. They kept an eye on it and it certainly was controlled but outside of definitely having your face in some government files you wouldn't have been arrested as long as you didn't draw any attention (eg. political activism) to yourself. They were more concerned about so called anti socials and troublemakers and trying to hold their state together
somedudefromnrw t1_iy9sapb wrote
Reply to comment by Joe_The_Volcano in Punk sitting next to a Volkspolizei officer on the East Berlin U-Bahn, 1986 by swishswooshSwiss
Yesnt. They kept an eye on it and it certainly was controlled but outside of definitely having your face in some government files you wouldn't have been arrested as long as you didn't draw any attention (eg. political activism) to yourself. They were more concerned about so called anti socials and troublemakers and trying to hold their state together