Brewstilled
Brewstilled is a variety show podcast in where life's topics, beverages, pop culture, TV shows and sports come together in their own realm. Inspired by the conversations we have at our favorite establishments, each episode is casual, relaxed and informative. The key is for the listener to be brewed and distilled after each episode.
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Barrel Aged Mysteries: The Stasi Puzzle
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In this episode of Brewstilled, we conclude this set of Barrel Aged Mysteries by discussing the Stasi. Known as the shield and sword of the party, the Stasi maintained East Germany’s communist regime's power by tracking, spying on, and suppressing the civilian population through a massive network of secret informants and pervasive surveillance. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Stasi agents panicked and attempted to destroy their massive surveillance archives to hide the identities of their informants. Because their industrial paper shredders broke down under the immense volume, officers hastily tore millions of files by hand, but the shreds were later recovered and to this day those devoted to uncovering the Stasi’s secrets reassemble the documents to discover the secrets of the Stasi. The Stasi puzzle is the monumental, ongoing effort by Germany to reassemble hundreds of million fragments of destroyed surveillance documents. I’ll discuss the Stasi here on Brewstilled with a Barrel Aged Imperial Stout as the beer pairing