Igor Aidman: "Spies in the European sanatorium"

"Many are surprised at the unprofessionalism and outright disobedience of Russian spies. Various intricate conspiracy versions are built on this subject. Indeed, it is difficult to believe that all this is seriously: passports with almost coinciding numbers, taxi checks from the GRU building to Sheremetyevo, agents cars registered at the address of their headquarters. Cinema comedies about shabil spies that this cannot be in reality, ”the sociologist writes on his Facebook page.

“However, the situation is explained simply. The matter is what Europeans for many years believed that the Cold War is over, the KGB was destroyed, and Putin is a civilized politician with whom you can deal. They did not want to notice everything that is unbearable in this picture, including the activities of Russian spies and saboteurs.

Thanks to this, almost greenhouse, sanatorium conditions for the Chekists were created in Europe. Putin agents felt here, as in the backyard of their native building in Lubyanka. As a result, the Chekists relaxed, lost their vigilance and a professional sense of danger: they began to perceive their European operations almost like tourist tourists in which we need to do some standard overly work: to grass someone, hack the server or etc.

However, recently the situation began to change. The Chekists simply missed the moment when Europe woke up and began to resist. They began to get stupid and ridiculous on the most elementary, sometimes anecdotal errors.

Unfortunately, this applies to Germany to a lesser extent. Here, Putin's agents still do not threaten nothing. It is not surprising, because the former Chancellor and many years of Kremlin’s mercenary G. Schroeder prudently abolished counterintelligence in Germany. When the poisoned Verzilov was treated in Berlin for his relatives and friends, a Chekist surveillance was almost openly carried out. I'm not saying that the habitat spy Yakunin completely legally received the right to live and work (spy) in Germany.

Great Britain, in order to wake up, was needed to work Litvinenko, and then Skripyle. Will Germany wait until something like that happens on its territory? ”