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> negative-decadent" youths that also goes into to who behaves the least "appropriate for society", political ideas and suspect affiliations.

From the (Western) guide:

Skinheads: Enjoy fighting

Rude Boys: Are enthusiastic vandals

Punks: Out to shock through their appearance and behavior, have anarchist leanings

Roots Boys: anti-police

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As much as it's tempting to equate the Mirror to communist governments like East Germany, an article posted at least slightly tongue-in-cheek in a British newspaper is not the same thing as a guide provided to police in a police state.

Secret police records in former East Germany are subject to an unusual degree of transparency, because many of them were seized and subsequently made public after the wall fell.

We don't really know what the archives of western states would show if subjected to comparable scrutiny (to the limited extent those archives were made available, e.g. in Switzerland, they show an appalling amount of surveillance, though a comparatively limited amount and degree of repression).

Imagine what we'd discover if we could see the secret archives of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter.

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