Political-ideological diversion
The political-ideological diversion (PID, PiD) was a term used by communist secret services . It describes ideological influences of the West (especially the western media and secret services) on the societies of the communist sphere of influence , as well as thinking that deviates from the official party line, which was attributed to these influences. The term was essentially coined by the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR , which defined it in 1958 and used it as a key term in the fight against politically dissenters . For the MfS, for example, the PiD was an essential prerequisite for the formation of an organized opposition. This view was later adopted by other communist secret services and their operational orientation was adjusted accordingly.
As a result, any opposition to the ruling party line was viewed as hostile activity , and opponents of the regime and those with political differences were classified as enemies of the state, which had to be and were fought accordingly. In the GDR, people who think oppositionally were called hostile-negative people . So-called decomposition was used as one of the essential elements to combat them. In individual cases the death of the person concerned was accepted or even attempted, for example by suicide as a result of the psychological stress caused by the decomposition measures.
literature
- Roger Engelmann : Political-ideological Diversion. In: Roger Engelmann, Bernd Florath , Walter Suss et al. (Ed.): The MfS-Lexikon. Terms, persons and structures of the state security of the GDR. Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-627-7 , p. 67f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Sandra Pingel-Schliemann: Zersetzen. Anatomy of a dictatorship , pp. 266–278.