More About the Stasi: It's a Family Affair! Many Drug Sellers and Worse (Human Traffickers) Are Involved + Blackmail + Generational Families Connect to Intelligence Agencies and the Police

 1.) Recruits often came from Stasi families. It was generational, so the children would follow in their parents' footsteps because they knew how the system worked. From an early age, the children were taught to be liars, snitches, and to spy on their spouses, family, and friends.  The Stasi would routinely get fathers, mothers, sons, husbands, and wives to turn on each other.  Think of this in the same way as what Monica Lewinsky is saying: "I grew up lying, in my family we always lie." This applies to the children of spy families.

2.) Recruits rarely came from those who applied to work with the Stasi. Rather, the Stasi often recruited from those they had under surveillance. In other words, many were informants and criminals. In fact, the Stasi would frequently give criminals a job to work with them instead of serving time. Why did they do this? More than likely, it's because many of these people have a high level of psychopathy, but it is also because it is cheaper and they can use the skills of some psychopaths. You have to understand that when a government is being overrun by psychopaths, it will look for them to join their group and enforce their rule on the general public.  Doesn't this sound like Homeland Security?  Specifically, the NSA, CIA and the FBI.

The Stasi never allowed the citizens to know the country was being overrun by criminals; the public image was that it was always getting "their man." The main job of the Stasi was fighting political dissidents. 

The Stasi called themselves proud "Chekists", once again, emphasizing the connections to Bolshevism and the Cheka.