The system that specialised in preventing you

'In Erfurt, I became radicalised against the system. The system that specialised in preventing you. Preventing you full stop.'

I had felt the same at sixteen, in the same system. I'd felt old before I was young. In a liberal democracy, Felix would have been a run-of-the-mill anarchist, a regular angry young man, and his rebellion would have run its course. But not in East Germany in 1971.

K. Kassabova, Border (2017), 92