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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKBG Putin, once an agent,
always an agent.
Grunge.com has lots of info on Putins history with the KBG.
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KBG Putin, once an agent, (Original Post)
multigraincracker
Feb 2024
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He went back to Leningrad with a 20 year old washing machine that he used for 5 more years
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2024
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Irish_Dem
(81,823 posts)1. Putin was said to be devastated when the USSR broke up.
He was a young KGB agent and he placed the blame entirely on the US. He vowed revenge.
And promised that he would break up the United States just like the USSR was broken up.
He has certainly been making good on that promise.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)3. He went back to Leningrad with a 20 year old washing machine that he used for 5 more years
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)2. KGB (twice)
speak easy
(12,598 posts)4. No longer an agent; He's the boss.
DFW
(60,311 posts)5. I visited Potsdam, where he was stationed in East Germany, a few years ago.
I saw the villa where he used to live. A few houses down, there was a courtyard and a white wall that still was pockmarked with bullet holes where Putin and his pals used to dispatch "uncomfortable" people.
Best_man23
(5,268 posts)6. Once KGB, ALWAYS KGB
Putin may be leading the corrupt clown show over in Russia, but its a KGB operation from the top down.