Many former communist countries have chosen not to prosecute citizens who collaborated with the secret police.
She hated being called a spy, because that associated her with the Stasi, the secret police.
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My favorite sections were the replica empty shop and the secret police interrogation room.
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These typically involve a public figure's real or alleged collaboration with the communist secret police.
There are suspicions that Serbia's secret police were behind the bomb attacks on police stations.
SHIK, his secret police, many of them from his own northeastern region of Tropoje.
At its eight checkpoints, zealous secret police and UN peacekeepers' white jeeps stand by.
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The East German secret police, the Stasi, spied on him, using his friends and contacts as informers.
Ministers reviewed the secret police files, and declared that the case against Mr Zilk was indeed unproven.
I've heard the knock of the secret police at my door in the middle of the night.
Varujan Vosganian, the first choice, was dropped amid allegations that he once collaborated with the secret police.
During house searches, the secret police would usually neglect to investigate anything connected with women or children.
Dark rumours swirled round Prague, the Czech capital, that Mr Zilk had informed for communist Czechoslovakia's secret police.
When the paper's editor is murdered by Mussolini's secret police, our hero reluctantly takes up the editorial cudgel.
They centralised power, eliminated rival parties, attacked religion, established secret police forces and sent dissenters to labour camps.
The dreaded secret police were transferred to the Ministry of Defense in late December 1989 by President Iliescu.
The Ethiopian government's efforts at political control are supported by a wide network of informers and secret police.
He created Iraq's secret police and intelligence, and he became the number one strongman of Iraq in 1979.
This latest change of military guard follows the dismissal of Jovica Stanisic, head of Serbia's powerful secret police.
Its coercive institutions, especially the secret police and intelligence services, worked very closely with those of the Soviet Union.
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Millions were terrorized by the regime's secret police, the Securitate, while many others were compromised by collaboration with it.
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