when Berlin Wall “fell”, in 1989 George Codfound himself pounding the concrete with a sledgehammer in his hands.

“…I felt that with every blow I drove a nail into the coffin of the barbarian system that ruined my life and now lies dead before me. it was revenge my…“, He speaks.

George’s life Bakaliusocial worker for Greek immigrants in West Berlin, will change dramatically from that Friday 15 May in 1970, when he was walking carelessly along the streets of East Berlin with his elderly father, they were kidnapped like a gangster, three men unknown to him, who were traveling in a car with ordinary numbers.

As it turned out, they were her police officers. ShTASI with the politicians who brought him to the cells of his notorious secret service Honeckerwhere he left after six years and eleven days. The Evangelical Church where he worked helping Greek immigrants bought the remainder of his sentence, which was twelve years.

In her prisons ShTASI Cod he was subjected to physical and, above all, psychological torture in order to confess that he worked for the “imperialist secret services of the West.” And it drove him crazy. As if by a miracle, he survived even when communist regime collapsed searched her archives ShTASI and found his file, which had 11,800 pages!

Some Greek immigrants sympathetic to the East German regime slandered him as a KYP agent working to undermine “socialism”.

As can be seen from the documents, the reason was as follows: he did not hesitate to condemn, on the occasion of the invasion of Soviet tanks into Czechoslovakia in 1968, the cruelty communists regimes in Eastern Europe, openly arguing that they will not last long.

He was horrified by what he read. And to make matters worse, she discovered that her informants ShTASI these were his compatriots (he calls them), whom he even helped.

Stazi explored mbefore as well as… his house in Sohos, Thessaloniki, with her help KGBBulgarian special services Zifkov and “his” people in the village (!) to collect “compromising evidence” on his life.

AT book – fist in the stomach calledSix years in his Katerga ShTASI“, which will be presented tomorrow Tuesday at 19:00 on “Baraka Cafe Bistro“on the square Navarinoin the center of Thessaloniki, Cod succinctly tells what we are used to hearing and reading about psychological torture, in which ShTASI presented their victims.

He describes first-hand the rich scientific arsenal used by this evil machine to crush the human soul. Why to get what you want ShTASI she did not mutilate the bodies of her victims, but their souls. As well as per it was especially effective.

“…BUT At night my irrationality reached its peak. Torture, uncertainty, uncertainty, stalemate, assumption that AngelaSS. a trick in which a woman’s voice is heard from another cell, pretending to be his wife) is in the hell of the Stasi and the conviction that there is no more salvation for me gave me a gratuitous injection. Quite unexpectedly, the mind began to go crazy and see ridiculous figures: devils, angels, saints, relatives and acquaintances, previously a lot of they fled from a world of injustice and wickedness. And let these forms jump before my eyes. This phenomenon sent me into a state of panic. Attempts to expel these forms did not bring the expected result. I ran around the cell like crazy, as if the ghosts I saw were chasing me. A uniformed guard who checked every ten minutes and therefore turned the light on and off in the cell, seeing that I was not in the wooden “bed”, shouted: “Stop walking and walking! Get into your bed!”

Against his orders, I continued to play my violin until at some point a voice “heard” inside me telling me: “You are already on the verge of a nervous breakdown! For this reason, leave the nonsense and return to reality, no matter how harsh it may be. But it was too late. I couldn’t call on the remaining mental strength to avoid the delirium.

One day the madness reached its climax. I began to break everything I could find in the cell: a basin of water, a stool and a table. There was nothing else. I started crying and then screaming at the same time. As expected, the door of the cell opened, as it did a few weeks ago, and two tall men in uniform rushed in. Once I realized what had happened, I was speechless. I stood in the middle of the cell as still as Column. People in uniform, without saying a word, grabbed me by the neck with the order: “Undress and put on this.” Shirt and long shorts. When I finished filming it, they pulled me out of the cell,” he writes.

George Cod “held” because, as he writes, he had nothing to do with the services and did not know anything that could make him potentially dangerous for the regime. Because he was innocent and he had nothing to confess.

Among other things, he describes in his book how ShTASI he tossed about in the world of Greek immigrants in West Germany, centered in West Berlin, creating networks of henchmen to tie each other down.

After his release, he was re-employed by the Evangelical Church and now lives in retirement between Berlin and Soho.