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No one is allowed to sit on the fence of the first German socialist state of workers and peasants, which we call Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart ... "
Erich Mielke

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To not make a decision
sit on the fence To not make a decision or take a side when presented with two or more options or possibilities.

To "sit on the fence" is an idiom used to describe a person's lack of decisiveness, neutrality or hesitance to choose between two sides in an argument or a competition, or inability to decide due to lack of courage. It means that you’re unsure of which way you want to go with your decision, and you need more convincing to make a choice. The phrase is commonly used in both professional and social contexts.


Meaning of sit on the fence in English
 
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to delay making a decision:
You can't sit on the fence any longer - you have to decide whose side you're on.


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sit on the fence
sit on the fence
To not make a decision or take a side when presented with two or more options or possibilities.
You can't sit on the fence any longer—you need to choose who of these two we need to fire.
The government has been sitting on the fence about legalizing marijuana for the past several years.
See also: fence, on, sit
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
sit on the fence
(about something) Go to on the fence (about something).
See also: fence, on, sit
sit on the fence
Fig. not to take sides in a dispute; not to make a clear choice between two possibilities. (Fig. on the image of someone straddling a fence, representing indecision.) When Jane and Tom argue, it is best to sit on the fence and not make either of them angry. No one knows which of the candidates Joan will vote for. She's sitting on the fence.
See also: fence, on, sit
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
sit on the fence
COMMON If you sit on the fence, you refuse to give a definite opinion about something or to say who you support in an argument. Who was cooler, Starsky or Hutch? You couldn't sit on the fence and say you liked both of them equally. Note: Verbs such as stay and be can be used instead of sit. Democrats who'd been on the fence about the nomination, in the end all voted for him. Note: You can call this kind of behaviour fence-sitting, and someone who behaves like this a fence-sitter. At his first press conference there was much fence-sitting. I sense that there are a lot of fence-sitters out there on this issue. Note: These expressions are usually used to show that you disapprove of the fact that someone is not making a decision. Note: The fence referred to is one that separates two properties or territories and someone sitting on it is unable or unwilling to make a decision about which side to stand on.
See also: fence, on, sit
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
sit on the fence avoid making a decision or choice.
The two sides of a fence are seen here as representing the two opposing or conflicting positions or interests involved in a particular debate or situation.
1995 Duncan McLean Bunker Man Let's have a proper decision—goal or no goal—none of this sitting on the fence.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
sit on the ;fence avoid deciding between two sides of an argument, discussion, quarrel, etc: Either you support me or you don’t. You can’t sit on the fence all your life. ; Politicians cannot sit on the fence. People expect them to have clear views. OPPOSITE: take sides ; ;fence-sitter noun a person who cannot or does not want to decide which side of an argument, etc. to support
See also: fence, on, sit
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
on the fence, to be/sit
To be undecided or uncommitted. This term dates from the early nineteenth century and conjures up the image of a person who cannot or will not decide to which side of the fence to jump. At first the term was most frequently applied to politics—that is, which candidate or party one would support—and indeed it was even so defined in John Bartlett’s 1859 Dictionary of Americanisms: “Fenceriding: The practice of ‘sitting on the fence,’ or remaining neutral in a political contest until it can be seen ‘which way the cat is going to jump.’” Subsequently the term began to be applied to any kind of hedging.
See also: on, sit, to
The Dictionary of Clich;s by Christine Ammer Copyright © 2013 by Christine Ammer
See also:
straddle
straddle the fence
on the fence
stay on the fence
don't sit on the fence
be on the fence (about something)
on the fence, be
on the fence, to be/sit
fence-sitting
pull (one) off the fence


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The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer  was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; West Germany) from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany).[a] Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961. It included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches, beds of nails and other defenses. The primary intention for the Wall's construction was to prevent East German citizens from fleeing to the West.

The Soviet Bloc propaganda portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from "fascist elements conspiring to prevent the will of the people" from building a communist state in the GDR. The authorities officially referred to the Berlin Wall as the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall, The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the "Wall of Shame", a term coined by mayor Willy Brandt in reference to the Wall's restriction on freedom of movement.[6] Along with the separate and much longer inner German border, which demarcated the border between East and West Germany, it came to symbolize physically the Iron Curtain that separated the Western Bloc and Soviet satellite states of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.

Before the Wall's erection, 3.5 million East Germans circumvented Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions and defected from the GDR, many by crossing over the border from East Berlin into West Berlin; from there they could then travel to West Germany and to other Western European countries. Between 1961 and 1989, the Wall prevented almost all such emigration. During this period, over 100,000[9] people attempted to escape, and over 5,000 people succeeded in escaping over the Wall, with an estimated death toll of those murdered by East German authorities ranging from 136 to more than 200 in and around Berlin.

In 1989, a series of revolutions in nearby Eastern Bloc countries—in Poland and Hungary in particular—caused a chain reaction in East Germany. In particular, the Pan-European Picnic in August 1989 set in motion a peaceful development during which the Iron Curtain largely broke, the rulers in the East came under pressure to cease their repressive policies, the Berlin Wall fell and finally the Eastern Bloc collapsed. After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit the FRG and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the Wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, souvenir hunters chipped away parts of the Wall. The Brandenburg Gate, a few meters from the Berlin Wall, was opened on 22 December 1989. The demolition of the Wall officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1994.[1] The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which formally took place on 3 October 1990.


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Erich Fritz Emil Mielke  28 December 1907 – 21 May 2000) was a German communist official who served as head of the East German Ministry for State Security (Ministerium f;r Staatsicherheit – MfS), better known as the Stasi, from 1957 until shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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Stasi kostete 4,2 Milliarden Ostmark jaehrlich

Wie teuer so ein „Sparmodell Geheimdienst“ sein kann, sieht man am Ministerium f;r Staatssicherheit der DDR. Es beschaeftigte Ende der 80er-Jahre 90.000 offizielle und 170.000 inoffizielle Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter – die sogenannten IM. 4,2 Milliarden Ostmark kostete es jedes Jahr, 16,5 Millionen Menschen in der DDR zu ueberwachen.