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It turns out that not only the Americans listened to the Angels Merkel's mobile phone. Together with them, Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, and British were engaged in this important and useful espionage activity. In general, in the tube of Frau Chancerer, some crush was observed.

And how not to spy if everything is nearby? The embassies with their parabolic antennas are located right in the Berlin government quarter: buy equipment, plant people and listen. The case is ordinary, neighboring.

In addition, in a note published by the Munich magazine Focus , with reference to a senior German intelligence officer, it is reported that 120 employees of Russian special services working under diplomatic cover are involved in intelligence operations in Germany. Dear organizations such as the SVR, GRU and the FSB are mentioned.

All this is reported in the narrative manner - as about light weather troubles. No comparison with articles on the revelations of Edward Snowden. There was a living passion. Here you feel the usual anxiety, mixed with boredom. Well, Putin, well, spy, and, too, you know, was interested in the telephone of our federal mother - what can you do? Smile off, a proud man, as one Russian wrote, and we are not proud.

This is a very curious psychological phenomenon.

Putin in Germany is quite popular. Especially in those circles where anti -American sentiments are strong, and these sentiments aggravated against the background of the scandal with wiretap. The euphoria, which was noteworthy to the Russian reader about Obama, turned into a woeful disappointment, it barely found out that the total wars of Bush, the new president prefer total awareness.

However, a powerful, with hysterical notes, a public campaign in defense of Snowden and for providing him with asylum in Germany also came to naught, barely in the chancelliramt firmly and unequivocally spoke out on this score. The topic was gone, but the sediment was nasty, and the secret information flowed from the German special services that the Angels Merkel who just did not listen and her Sesapes who just did not read the pipe.

Apparently, we are talking about an organized leak. Very painful for the reputation of the German special services, since it was they who have passed all who moved the ears in the mobile phone Frau Chancerer. However, everything is clear with them after Snowden's revelations, but there is a chance to finally turn public moods. Just reminding the population about who protects Europe from whom. Whose espionage creeps are annoyed, and whose whose - pose a threat.

In this sense, a neutral tone in a message about North Korean and Russian agents affects the reader quite effectively. Dried text with numbers and facts - it is always more convincing than clicks. And if in the conflicts of Russia with America the same German society sometimes rejoices at the humiliations of the overseas partner, then when it comes to his own house inhabited by antennas in the government quarter, thoughts arise completely different. And estimates in relation to current spy scandals are more realistic.

It is also possible that the leak is associated with a sharp exacerbation of the situation in Ukraine. The second orange revolution greatly resembles the first, and not only the composition of the participants, among whom Putin, Yanukovych, Tymoshenko, Lutsenko, Kvasinevsky stand out. In fact, the main plot of nine years ago is repeated. Ukraine again chooses between Europe and Yanukovych, who has already finished, and the West is again checked for strength in confrontation with the same force that he always wants evil, but does not always celebrate victory. In this sense, a reminder that espionage, and much more active and successful than an ally, is engaged in a competitor, also does not seem unnecessary.

Of course, this competition should not be confused with the Cold War. Another era, another union, just customs, other borders, and others, sometimes able to find a common language in the struggle, for example, with terror. However, the conflict is evident, and it is important to understand with whom you are seriously conflict, and with whom - Ponaroshka. Note in Focus - good information for reflection on this score.