When I read this, I just realized something: In the 1990s, the newspapers in Germany were teeming with revelations about systematic state-sponsored doping in the GDR (which had just been annexed by the FRG). It is quite plausible to assume that this was part of a concerted campaign to discredit the significant international successes of East German athletes in recent decades. In essence, it was part of the psychological warfare waged against the population of East Germany, which had to be convinced of its inferiority to the West Germans who grew up in the capitalist part of the country.
When I read this, I just realized something: In the 1990s, the newspapers in Germany were teeming with revelations about systematic state-sponsored doping in the GDR (which had just been annexed by the FRG). It is quite plausible to assume that this was part of a concerted campaign to discredit the significant international successes of East German athletes in recent decades. In essence, it was part of the psychological warfare waged against the population of East Germany, which had to be convinced of its inferiority to the West Germans who grew up in the capitalist part of the country.
Plausible? Its a fact brother.