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The Ministry for State Security (), commonly known as the Stasi () (abbreviation German Staatssicherheit, literally State Security), also State Security Service (German Staatssicherheitsdienst, SSD), was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR),

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