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Title: Putin was a 'lazy, drunken spy' who 'used to beat his wife' and 'ordered KGB officers to shoot peaceful protesters' according to TV documentary
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Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... -according-TV-documentary.html
Published: Feb 18, 2015
Author: Allan Hall
Post Date: 2015-02-18 20:45:18 by cranky
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Views: 2100
Comments: 7
A new documentary on Russian strongman Vladimir Putin reveals he was branded a drunken groper during his time as a KGB spy by his Soviet masters. The documentary includes claims that he was also prepared to shoot unarmed protestors in East Germany during the peaceful revolution of 1989, underwent a secret facelift in 2010, is 'terrified' of growing old and always travels with a personal chef because he is paranoid about being poisoned. And the programme makers said intelligence sources and documents examined for the programme suggest he has survived five assassination attempts in recent years resulting in his 'leadership style with incredible delusions for control.' A documentary on Vladimir Putin (pictured) that was broadcast on German TV last night claimed he was 'terrified' of growing old and had undergone a secret facelift in 2010 The documentary included claims that he was prepared to shoot protesters during the peaceful revolution of 1989. Pictured are crowds attempting to get through the reopened Berlin Wall. File image used The German TV company ZDF aired 'Putin the Man' on Tuesday evening, using hitherto secret Stasi secret police files, interviews with former KGB underlings and superiors, and western intelligence sources to build a more rounded picture of the leader whose power-politics threaten the peace of Europe over Ukraine. After dragging himself up from the slums of St. Petersburg into the ranks of the feared KGB, the programme described him as a 'lazy, drunken spy' when he headed the spy agency's field office in Dresden in former East Germany. One superior noted of his five years in Dresden, between 1985 and 1990; 'He was a desktop spy, a macho playing upon a safe stage.' A file entry from the time noted how he got inebriated at the birthday party of a friend. 'Mrs. H. remembers that on the birthday party of her father he grabbed her particularly fiercely, hugging and kissing her. His colleagues in the KGB spoke about his fondness for hard liqour.' Vladimir Putin, pictured in 1999, worked his way up through the KGB from the slums of St Petersburg A source named Lina, an employee at the KGB HQ in Dresden, was noted as telling his superiors that he regularly beat his wife Ludmilla, who she had befriended. Putin and Ludmilla divorced last year. Further documents show that he ordered KGB officers in Dresden to defend their HQ with weapons filled with live ammunition and to fire on peaceful protestors if they approached the building as the East German state collapsed. In the past Putin has said he never issued such an order. He dreamed of being sent west to build up and run his own spy network, but his masters in KGB headquarters in Moscow never considered him mature enough for such a job. The boredom in Dresden seemed to have made Putin also careless. A neighbor of his told the documentary he once mislaid a bunch of keys - keys to ultra sensitive KGB files - who posted a note on a tree seeking their rightful owner. One of his biographers told the programme that during the Dresden years he was 'fat, lazy and disillusioned.' Putin once boasted that he works like a galley slave for Russia, but the programme suggests otherwise. He sleeps late, works only in the afternoon after breakfasting on cottage cheese, takes a hot, then a cold, bath and then goes to a gym stuffed with expensive American sports equipment. 'He regularly comes late to appointments,' said one Kremlin insider. 'He even made the Queen of England wait for half an hour, his ministers often several hours.' Biographer Ben Judah said: 'Putin is afraid of physical decay, he is afraid of agíng.' A western intelligence report was cited alleging he underwent a facelift in 2010 because he wanted a 'young, dynamic appearance.'
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#2. To: cranky (#0)
Yeah,but if you overlook those issues and minor other things like trying to channel the spirit of Stalin,he's not such a bad guy.
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