You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it. — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down. — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there. — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it. — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it. — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism. — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it. — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
