For readers and writers in Communist East Germany back in 1981, a leading film-maker reminded an audience that writing was a weapon in the ideological class struggle with imperialism .
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For seven years, the East German security service’s poetry group met in Berlin to discuss literature. But there was more to it than just learning about iambic pentameter