The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS, German: [ɛmɛfˈʔɛs] (listen)), or State Security Service (Staatssicherheitsdienst, SSD), commonly known as the Stasi (German: [ˈʃtaːziː] (listen)),[n 1] was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany, GDR) from 1950 to 1990. It has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies to have ever existed
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