Eugen Ruge writes about the nonsense we are all fed

Eugen Ruge's 'In Times of the Fading Light' is well worth a read.

The book was written after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It tells the story of a family with links with the Soviet Union and Mexico. Some, true believers in the Marxist Leninism of the  GDR, convinced followers of the system, others less so and then all the nonsense, lies and spoof they were told.

The quote below is about Alexander:

 “He had been fooled, his entire life. He had been led by the nose. He was delighted he had realised this.

"In reality everything is about deceit. And the truth of the matter is: He is a stupid foolish white man who has been fleeced - what else.'

The author is recounting  an incident where Alexander, while visiting where his grandmother lived in Mexico, was robbed by a taxi driver and his young friends.

But it tells a bigger story. It tells the story of how organisations and States make fools of all of us.

The book was first published in German in 2011. It has been translated into English and a film version was released in 2017.

Eugen Ruge was born in 1954 in the Soviet University, studied mathematics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Worked as physicist in the GDR and then as a film maker.

He fled the GDR in 1989 and is now back living in a united Berlin.