I don't think it was just Germany, either. If you look at the McCarthy-era communist witch hunts in the US, then it certainly wasn't as clear who the 'commies' and thus the enemies were. Same goes for the MI-5, the British secret service. For a while in the 1960ies, they were so paranoid about the whole service being undermined by Soviet double spies, that the service barely functioned anymore.
That being said, I think the writer's block question was intentionally phrased to provoke this kind of discussion and didn't actually mean to oversimplify the Cold War. Hence the 'seeming' simplicity...
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Date: 2008-10-05 01:26 am (UTC)I don't think it was just Germany, either. If you look at the McCarthy-era communist witch hunts in the US, then it certainly wasn't as clear who the 'commies' and thus the enemies were. Same goes for the MI-5, the British secret service. For a while in the 1960ies, they were so paranoid about the whole service being undermined by Soviet double spies, that the service barely functioned anymore.
That being said, I think the writer's block question was intentionally phrased to provoke this kind of discussion and didn't actually mean to oversimplify the Cold War. Hence the 'seeming' simplicity...