I hope you don&#x27;t get offended if I say that when you attribute Stasi to Nazis, you don&#x27;t show a depth of historical knowledge required to blindly trust you on your analysis on these issues.<p>Yes, every regime is trying to get information about who&#x27;s trying to destroy it. But (1) it&#x27;s not a tool to get to power as much as a tool to hold to power, and (2) it&#x27;s not inherently evil: if you have some regime that you actually like and don&#x27;t want to see violently overthrown, you would support such measures, implemented in a reasonable way (!), too.