Service V.V. Putin in the GDR, which he carried in the second half of the 1980s through the KGB, is part of his official (that is, open) biography, and almost from that time. So give this his service in the genre of “New Details! Monstrous revelations! ”Seemed impossible. That was, that was, all know and bylem overgrown.
But for the free media of the Western world there are no obstacles, and a message appeared in the news that the press received irrefutable proof of the connection between V.V. Putin with East German state security (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, abbreviated Stasi). In the archives of the Dresden district branch of the Stasi, 29 years later (but quite by accident), we found a service permit with a photo by V.V. Putin's
Further, it is no longer free media, but their readers have to ask questions. First of all, the collective word “press” is hardly fully applicable in this case, since the only source is the German newspaper Bild, which has (and still enjoys) a reputation for reprinting, to put it mildly, from a long time ago. Rather, this edition is for S-Bahn and U-Bahn passengers. This type of media was sung almost a hundred years ago by Marina Tsvetaeva:
Kacha - “lives with her sister”,
Yuttsya - “killed father”,
Swing - in vain
Pumped up.
It would be a little rash to consider such a message as valuable information for consideration. Of course, now there is a fast convergence of once reputable newspapers and yellow - nowhere yellower - tabloids. And yet.
Then the next question arises: why did the pass for 29 years lay in vain and remembered about it (found it) just now? Bild gives the answer: to this day, he "was lying undetected in boring classified secret files."
This answer may be suitable for reading on U-Bahn trains, but for the slightest serious reader this is bullshit. Personnel archives of special services do not exist to relieve boredom. To do this, you can go to the theater or read junk sheets. Whereas the archives are the holy of holies of any special service and the most valuable (it cannot be more valuable) prey for competing special services. Names, passwords, appearances - this is what get access to the archives are engaged in the first place.
There is evidence to the contrary: in February 1917, revolutionaries were first concerned with setting fire to the secret police building. Obviously, many of them really did not want anyone to understand "the boring classified secret files."
So it's not boredom and not in the difficulty of detection (this is not a secret treasure in the caves of Monte Cristo), but in the fact that today it was decided to throw in more, and in the tabloid they took it under the hood: “Yes, sir, happy to serve the glory! "
Thrown, however, not very well. On official documents (and any country - you can recall the requirements of foreign consulates for photographs) the portrait should be full face. A photo of three-quarters nobody will take. Meanwhile, V.V. Putin is depicted exactly in three quarters, and the photo is also without the seal of the department that issued the pass. Unless to suggest that the Stasi back in 1985, very liberally and liberally, was concerned with the issues of issuing certificates and the vaunted ordnung (and even East German, that is, Prussian, especially strict) - it was not about her.
To the question, why now. Here you need to understand the features of modern German agitprop. How ordinary Germans relate to the Stasi is a difficult question. On the one hand, the institution may not be the most pleasant, on the other - thirty years have passed, many other problems have appeared, and the West Germans are not at all interested in it. In addition, the official organ is true of the detotalitarianization program (I quote the head of the HRC MA Fedotov). The Stasi programs regularly follow the tele-boxer - in a corresponding manner.
Perhaps they decided that the information about the connections of V.V. Putin with the Stasi will destroy him in the general opinion of the German people, and the title of Putinversteher ("Putin understands") will become a shameful stigma. For the sake of this goal, you can warm up the day before yesterday dish to the table.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.