Putin's Rise to Power
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Puton's Great Moment of Luck
The security establishment in russia believed the yeltson family had brought the country to the point of break up. They also can have believed that sot of yelson mantra since the early nineties, he told the regional governorso take as much freedom as you can swallow. So really, they were about restoring the russian state. That's what they wanted to do. And they wanted to restore russiaas power on the world's stage. But in the late nineties, the oil price was about ten or 12 dollars. So, you know, it was very tall task to be able to do.
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