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2018-12-12 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin's East German identity card found in Stasi archives

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-12 02:57|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 The alleged migrant destabilization of Europe....why can't we just talk about something else ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-12 03:06|| 2018-12-12 03:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Did they find Merkels yet?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2018-12-12 04:49|| 2018-12-12 04:49|| Front Page Top

#3 East German Stasi tried to recruit Merkel as a spy

Politics on the other hand.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-12 04:56|| 2018-12-12 04:56|| Front Page Top

#4 "that the card would have let Putin enter Stasi offices unhindered and made it easier to recruit agents, because he would not have had to mention his KGB affiliation"

LOL, a Russian recruiting agents could never work for the KGB in the first place.

Posted by European Conservative 2018-12-12 06:18|| 2018-12-12 06:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Did they find Hillary's as well?

Posted by Raj 2018-12-12 07:24|| 2018-12-12 07:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Wonder what it would fetch on eBay? Sort of like old baseball cards?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-12 09:17|| 2018-12-12 09:17|| Front Page Top

#7 East German Stasi tried to recruit Merkel as a spy

Why buy a cow when they're giving away milk?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-12-12 09:30|| 2018-12-12 09:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Call me when someone finds Nellie Ohr's CIA gate badge.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-12 09:34|| 2018-12-12 09:34|| Front Page Top

#9 The Stasi tried to recrruit eveybody, and succeeded well enough — to absolutely no one’s surprise afterward. And since the country was wholly owned subsidiary of the KGB, granting a piece of paper to the young Mr, Putin, emissary from Moscow, did no more than imorove daily efficiency, Procopius2k nailed it — Mr. Putin’s is merely a curiosity, not meaningful.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-12-12 09:57|| 2018-12-12 09:57|| Front Page Top

#10 They have their 'deep state'. We have ours.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-12 10:27|| 2018-12-12 10:27|| Front Page Top

#11 "Mr. Putin’s is merely a curiosity, not meaningful."

That's correct. And he found out just how meaningful he was when he wanted Soviet troops to crush the protestors in Dresden in 1989. Nobody in Moscow picked up the phone.

Posted by European Conservative 2018-12-12 10:36|| 2018-12-12 10:36|| Front Page Top

#12 East German Stasi tried to recruit Merkel as a spy

And it appears they succeeded...

Posted by Glenmore 2018-12-12 11:11|| 2018-12-12 11:11|| Front Page Top

#13 How much is it worth on eBay?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-12-12 11:20|| 2018-12-12 11:20|| Front Page Top

#14 Does it have Trump's phone number on the back?

Posted by Bobby 2018-12-12 17:20|| 2018-12-12 17:20|| Front Page Top

#15 @ #10 - BULL'S EYE

Posted by Clem 2018-12-12 18:27|| 2018-12-12 18:27|| Front Page Top

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