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5. I visited Potsdam, where he was stationed in East Germany, a few years ago.

Reply to multigraincracker (Original post)

Fri Feb 16, 2024, 08:31 AM

Feb 2024

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.

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