Putin's Rise to Power
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Putin - Is He in the Kremlin?
Pute has always had one foot in the k g b. He was deputy to saint petersburg mare, he was sort of working with two masters. His first job as chief of the foreign property department - a great department of the soviet legacy. And when he moved to moscow,. after the mayor, anatoli sob cha, lost the election in 96. So putin had been is campaign manager. Sob Cha lost by a whisker, but putin stepped down and made this great, sort of personal sacrifice that he wouldn't serve under the new mayor who had been his forme mentor's opponent. In fact, he was only out of work for a couple
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