"Ever wondered how the Communist countries first became Communist? It's not the secret police who do the deed, it's the tax collectors. That's how the Communists wiped out private companies: they increased the tax rate steeply according to the number of employees. Only firms with less than a dozen employees had a chance of surviving." - Len Deighton in Berlin Game, midway through Chapter 4.
Berlin Game is a spy novel set in the early 1980s, long before the Berlin Wall came down. I ordered it from
Amazon because of a character mentioned by
Roberta X. The book was shipped to me from the UK.
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