How Putin murdered his way to the top of his Kleptocracy.

[SunSeeker]

This is an eye-popping, well-sourced documentary of Putin's rise from an unemployed KGB agent to the authoritarian ruler of the world's most ruthless kleptocracy.

It is 50 minutes long, but if you only have a few minutes, watch at 16:15 through about 25:00, when it discusses the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings ("Russia's 9/11&quot that were used to justify Putin's brutal invasion of Chechnya and made Putin a national hero, while postponing elections that he was on the road to losing had they been held before the apartment bombings. It lays out the evidence that Putin's FSB (former KGB) planted the apartment bombs, not the Chechens.

And the people who tried to investigate the Moscow apartment bombings ended up dead, including Sergei Yushenkov, and Alexander Litvinenko, who was famously poisoned:

[catbyte]

1. Wow, even as a kid, he had those dead, dark, sociopathic eyes.

[Synecdoche Trope]

2. Bookmarked

Thanks for posting!

[Major Nikon]

3. Makes you wonder what other despots Trump admires besides Hitler and Putin

[dalton99a]

4. Excellent documentary on our new master in Moscow.

[Nitram]

5. He ain't my master! Never will be.