we also have these beer coasters here which belongs to markus wo -- to markus wolf. the leadership all has bunkers, where they can retreat to if there was any kind of threat of a nuclear attack. markus wolf also had his bunker. and he turned it into a beer house. he had these beer coasters are -- especially made. they have this cartoonish figure of a lynx which was his nickname. officers had to undergo quite a bit of training. we have a wonderful artifact here which all stasi officers received as part of that training. what we have on display here is called a stasi criminalist kit. espionage was of course a crime. how do you catch criminals with a criminalist kit? who was training to be a spy catcher in east berlin would have taken a course at the university in east berlin. at the end of the course, they would have received this complete kit which is everything you need to catch a spy. you can see in it a lot of pretty mundane articles, a hammer, a screwdriver, a pair of to avoidubber gloves leaving finger prints for example. test tubes and other glass bobbles where

second time we have these beer coasters here that belonged to markus wolf. thethe leadership all has bunkers, where they can retreat to if there was any kind of threat of a nuclear attack. marcus wolf also had his bunker. he had these beer coasters especially made in this cartoonish figure. we have a wonderful artifact here that the officers would receive as part of that training. we have on display a criminalist kit. espionage was of course a crime. how do you catch criminals with a criminalist kit?. anybody who is training would have taken a course at the university in east berlin. they would have received this complete kit, which is everything you need. you can see a lot of pretty mundane articles, a screwdriver, a pair of pliers, rubber glove. some test tubes and little glass bottles where you may be able to store hair and fiber samples. to be able to put any kind of documents along the way. it is an entire kit for a spy catcher. if you were caught as a spy, there were serious consequences in east or lynn. this is a prison outside of east berlin. it is t

and now to london and we're joined by markus papadopoulos he's the editor of politics 1st magazine marcus thank you for joining us today i want you to tell us everything that's important about this general election that's coming up because a number of things that i've learned is that it looks like boris johnson could come out on top in a very big way but others are also talking about this is being the most important general election since 1945 is that true in your opinion marcus. i certainly concur with that assessment this general election is a monumental one for britain and it is almost a unique general election why because this is the 1st time in recent times that the election is about one issue and one. issue only and that is rex it that is what makes this election so unbelievable for polish johnson this is a massive gamble because boris johnson passed so when disallow action and he has to win it with a majority it is not good enough for the concert is to come out as the largest party without majority suppose johnson has to win with a majority in order for him to break that bret's it

ruth markus is out with a new book entitled supreme ambition.tive takeover. it comes out just after thanksgiving but "the washington post" is starting to report out the book now. ruth, congratulations. you set the stage a little bit with the kavanaugh hearings. i think in a similar way as we've been watching the impeachment hearings only in the ways that it mirrors the sort of tribalism that we've seen, the rush to judgment, political parties running to their battle stations before the evidence is presented '. what are the parallels here? >> well, so a bunch of people including both me and tucker carlson of all people, this feels a little bit like kavanaugh 2.0, impeachment does. and what i mean by that is some of what you mention, the reflects of tribalism, the unwillingness to consider evidence, the unwillingness to call witnesses who might shed light on the matter as we were discussing earlier. and the complaint, we heard this from republicans about the last-minute nature of the allegations about justice kavanaugh. the complaint about process

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