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Putin Celebrates Centenary of GRU Spy Agency
Moscow Times ^ | Nov 3, 2018 | Reuters

Posted on 11/03/2018 1:42:21 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

At a ceremony marking the centenary of Russia's military intelligence agency, Putin, in comments likely to be seen as provocative in the West, saluted its operatives for carrying out daring special operations and said they provided a model for a future generation.

The GRU has been in the spotlight since two men whom London blames for the Skripal poisoning admitted on Russian TV they had been in Salisbury on the day of the attack, but said they had only been there to see the city's famous cathedral spire.

The GRU was founded as the Registration Directorate in 1918 after the Bolshevik Revolution. Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin insisted on its independence from other secret services, which saw it as a rival.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: gru; lenin; putin; sovietunion; ussr
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1 posted on 11/03/2018 1:42:21 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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Today we went to a spy event at a mall. You could take a pamphlet with questions based from exhibits, then you filled in your name and put it in a box for prizes.

Plus my daughter got through a room of laser alarms.

2 posted on 11/03/2018 2:05:47 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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They had real spy stuff on exhibition... picture 1, picture 2

We were the only three doing the actual pamphlet contest hat I seen. It was NOT easy. You really had to read stuff and solve things.

3 posted on 11/03/2018 2:12:41 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Plus they had real movie props on display, picture 1, picture 2, picture 3.
4 posted on 11/03/2018 2:17:44 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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At the end I taught my daughter how to dial an old phone.
5 posted on 11/03/2018 2:20:04 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Afterwards we bought food and ate at a nearby playground.

OK, what is odd about this picture?

6 posted on 11/03/2018 2:25:37 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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For help here is another picture.
What is odd?
7 posted on 11/03/2018 2:27:12 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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The orange boxes a trash bins.

Have you ever seen so many in a small place?!

I counted 15 and I am sure I was not seeing them all!


8 posted on 11/03/2018 2:29:25 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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We were eating and my wife handed my a piece of garbage and I said: Oh look... I don’t even have to get up I can just drop it in the bin next to me. Then my wife pointed out to me all the other trash bins and I said: That’s crazy!


9 posted on 11/03/2018 2:32:18 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Then we went to another mall, a new mall that opened just a few days ago by the Berlin Wall.

So we walked by the Wall. There is always the largest crowd at where these men are kissing.

10 posted on 11/03/2018 2:42:01 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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We walked a bit further and all of a sudden the cops came swooping in...

My wife said that it has been in the news that the Romanian Mafia has been running gambling games at The Wall like 3 card Monty. SDo looks like the cops are coming down on them now.

11 posted on 11/03/2018 2:45:42 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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The Arena in the background is not the new Mall but the fountain is new.
Should be very interesting when next summer comes because people can easily walk in it.
The new mall is just off to the right.
12 posted on 11/03/2018 2:51:04 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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East Side Mall. New Mall that is a short bus ride from us.
13 posted on 11/03/2018 3:01:33 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Enjoy it——personally I DETEST malls,even upscale ones.

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14 posted on 11/03/2018 3:08:33 PM PDT by Mears
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I wanted to say many but I will say some, shops had spin wheels were you could win prizes. Between the three of us we did well.

Here is a spin wheel line. It moved fast.

Mall picture. Before I took this picture I removed a half filled plastic bottle of water from on top of the rail. "rail". And put it on the floor. You have to wonder about some people.

Leaving. You can see fire display shooting smoke. This mall was in the news today not just for being new but because each day of the first three days opening there have been fire alarms and they had to clear the whole mall out of people. I told my wife: Look no wonder they have alarms, they got flamethrowers all over the place!

Waiting for the bus home.

15 posted on 11/03/2018 3:13:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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They were selling Ray-Ban sunglasses for 210 euros. I got three pieces of cake and two glasses of orange juice for free there. My wife had cake and two glasses of champagne.


16 posted on 11/03/2018 3:17:23 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Sounds like fun,especially the champagne.

My granddaughter spent 6 weeks in Berlin early last year as part of her semester abroad-——she loved it. It was VERY cold when she was there,but she is used to that. She loved the pub scene.

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17 posted on 11/03/2018 3:22:17 PM PDT by Mears
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Yowza! Fascinating.


18 posted on 11/03/2018 5:31:25 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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Your daughter is precious!


19 posted on 11/03/2018 10:39:03 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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Thank You Very Much CondoleezzaProtege!


20 posted on 11/04/2018 1:13:45 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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