Mr president

One of the most popular and powerful president in the world
Владимир Владимирович Путин
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
KGB career (1975-1991)
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In 1975, Putin joined the KGB, and trained at the 401st KGB school in Okhta, Leningrad.
After training, he worked in the Second Chief Directorate (counter-intelligence), before he was transferred to theFirst Chief Directorate, where he monitored foreigners and consular officials in Leningrad.From 1985 to 1990, he served in Dresden , East Germany ,using a cover identity as a translator.According to Putin's biographer Masha Gessen, "Putin and his colleagues were reduced mainly to collecting press clippings, thus contributing to the mountains of useless information produced by the KGB."According to Putin's official biography, during the fall of the Berlin Wall that began on 9 November 1989, he burned KGB files to prevent demonstrators from obtaining them.

After the collapse of the Communist East German government, Putin returned to Saint Petersburg, where in June 1991, he worked with the International Affairs section of Saint Petersburg State University, reporting to Vice-Rector Yuriy Molchanov.There, he looked for new KGB recruits, watched the student body, and renewed his friendship with his former professor, Anatoly Sobchak, the Mayor of Saint Petersburg.Putin resigned with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel on 20 August 1991,on the second day of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt against the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.Putin said: "As soon as the coup began, I immediately decided which side I was on", although he also noted that the choice was hard because he had spent the best part of his life with "the organs".

In 1999, Putin described communism as "a blind alley, far away from the mainstream of civilization".
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