> Neighbors and friends denouncing each other for minor transgressions. Neighbors denouncing their black, Mexican, LGBTQ what have you neighbors. Then other n

> Neighbors and friends denouncing each other for minor transgressions. Neighbors denouncing their black, Mexican, LGBTQ what have you neighbors. Then other neighbors denouncing the denouncers - this latter part seems to be where you start having a problem with it. Incidentally, the US government surveils its citizen's phone calls etc. far more than the DDR under Honecker ever did.