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How US-Russian relations fractured in the 1990s

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The Soviet Secret Police

Vladimir Putin was a mid to low level k g b agent in east germany. He's watching an absolute horror as soviet and east german control collapses. Can't believe that people aren't fighting back, he says. Many of these lessons help to shape how he rules now - this isn't dusty history.

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