I wrote my BSc psych thesis on factors influencing civilian complicity with the Stasi and I’ll be right there with you.

We tried to warn people and we got called insane. Which was also a favored tactic of the USSR to shut dissenters up. But they don’t wanna have THAT conversation. 🙃

Fair, but I feel like there’s a lot of messages being sent that aren’t being backed up by actual action, and that’s just emboldening him further.

Wish they wouldn’t warn him, though. Now he knows to avoid Poland, and Bulgaria’s volunteered to let him through their airspace instead.

🤝

HELL YES. I need this to be published.

“Ughhhh, an Ausländerin” to lovers is the most Berlinerisch arc ever. 😂

I won’t lie, after reading your pitches, I’m like…did I manifest an actual Sophie? 🤣

I am HERE for stories about gifted burnout that don't dismiss it as whiny humblebragging!