Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“In 1977, East Germany ransomed hundreds of its leading intellectuals and artists to West Germany, partly because it did not wish to endure public criticism by its own citizens during an International Rights Conference. In spite of the human sale, there was no general revulsion against the East German government in the international community. The East German regime was considered by many social scientists to have more legitimacy than the West German government because of its more expansive social welfare system and its grandiose paternalist pretensions. Romania engaged in similar sales during the 1980s with its Jewish and ethnic-German subjects. How many of its citizens does a government have to sell before it loses legitimacy?” (05/05/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/05/05/political-slavery-in-our-times/