Looking Back on East Germany: Police State Nightmare Come True

Personally, I think Lives of Others stands in sharp contrast to a similarly-themed movie made/released few years back by the name of "Goodbye Lenin." Now while some folks may defend the latter moreso than the former (something about the perceived stability done before the fall of the Berlin Wall, or the fashionable leftist nostalgia), something tells me that von Donnersmarck is trying to remind Germany (and pretty much the world) the old post-Holocaust adage of "never again."
I don't know how well this drama will be received outside of Germany (at least where Western leftist elites are concerned), I think "Lives of Others" must be told, as say other totalitarian stories of the Rape of Nanking variety: or at least something like what goes on in Castro's Cuba, post-colonial Africa under the likes of Robert Mugabe, and several others.