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Putin was born in 1952 to an ordinary family in the Soviet Union. His parents were both workers and did not live in wealth. His father fought in the Great Patriotic War, was permanently disabled, and the family lived in a large courtyard. When Putin was young, he was most impressed by playing rats in the corridor with his neighbor's friends. In the harsh living environment, rats are scurrying around, and he and his friends hold up sticks every day and wait for the rats to appear.
Poverty has not dampened Putin's ambition. Living in a flock of sheep can also give birth to the ambition to fight the blue sky. He enjoyed reading a magazine called Shield and Sword, and had a strong interest in describing the KGB's story.
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During college, when most young people discuss which girl is beautiful, whether to chase, how to chase, discuss which game is fun, team up to open the black, and Putin often stays in the library until late, his grades are very good, almost all courses are 5 points out of 5. Putin, a proper student bully in college, said: "I am used to speaking with 5 points.
After graduating from college, Putin resolutely decided to become a KGB agent.
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Entering the KGB, you can only become a full KGB agent after five years of arduous training and passing the test.
In addition to high-intensity physical training, the training course also includes a variety of cultural exams including physics, chemistry, politics, and foreign languages.
Those who pass the examination will take 392 courses of military courses and 1824 hours of "special subject" training.
These "special subjects" cover topography, photography, radio, special communications, and more. Even the basic skills of jointing, stalking, and tracking are highly valued and require frequent training.
Put to ancient times, it was qinqi calligraphy and painting astrological gossip, and the soldiers were deployed to the Qimen Qimen, as long as they could learn, none of them could fall behind.
It is an eternal truth that only by suffering the most bitter suffering can something be achieved.
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In 1985, Putin was sent to the GDR for intelligence work.
His subordinates said of him: "He is not an alcoholic, he does not smoke, he is not greedy for money, and he is not lustful. He is always in control of his feelings, hiding secrets in his heart.
Another self-disciplined head of state like Putin is Hitler, the fascist leader who brought the world into darkness. It is also a self-disciplined character, which can bring peace when used well, and war when used badly.
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Putin's work in the GDR became meaningless. He returned to the Soviet Union.
In the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the KGB's vast institutions were dismembered and its reputation destroyed.
That was the first time Putin experienced the darkness of his life. This former excellent student, a brilliant agent, finally became a frustrated person for political reasons.
Between 1991 and 1993, nearly 300,000 KGB workers were laid off, and some even relied on selling out state intelligence to make a living.
In a later interview, he talked about the situation and said he was ready to become a taxi driver. At that time, most people were shrouded in a confused atmosphere, and it was difficult to predict what would happen tomorrow. I wondered, if I'm lucky enough not to be in jail, how will I support my wife and daughter? So I thought about being a taxi driver, and in 2021, in an interview with Russian television, Putin admitted for the first time that he had been a taxi driver. He described that part-time period as "unpleasant." "I didn't have a job, I had two children to feed and had to rely on driving taxis to make ends meet.
Look at the current Putin so bullish, the Ukraine hit the ground to find teeth, even the United States saw a headache, his life is not smooth, so in life, whether it is temporary unemployment caused by the epidemic, the downturn in business, or because of the introduction of national policies and lead to the complete coolness of the education and training industry, practitioners have to rely on takeaway to drip to subsidize the family, do not give up the hope of life, because everything will follow the law of the full moon is lacking, the moon is lacking. What can't kill us will only make us stronger.
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Because putin's almost perfect performance in the intelligence agency made his leaders appreciate him. Years later, the leader's only shortcoming in the memoirs of Putin was: "This man lacks a sense of fear."
In August 1999, Soviet President Boris Yeltsin made his last choice as prime minister. His eyes were focused on putin, who was 47 years old at the time. Yeltsin spoke highly of Putin:
Putin has not only a clever and wise mind, but also the quality of not being alarmed, as well as a correct character. Most importantly, his tough, decisive style of doing things.
The last prime minister stepped down because he was too soft on the enemy.
Putin was able to succeed because the Chechen war that broke out at that time gave Yeltsin a headache.
Beginning in 1997, President Maskhadov of the Chechen Republic under the Russian Federation insisted on Chechen independence and frequently launched wars to provoke Russia.
As the war intensified in 1999, Yeltsin was powerless to support it, but Putin showed his tough side. At the meeting to become prime minister, he gave his own answer to the Chechen question:
"Russia's territorial integrity is an issue that cannot be discussed, and it is unlikely to need to bargain with every violator of territorial integrity."
In an interview with reporters, he expressed his goals. It is also this passage that makes Putin, who stood on the world political stage for the first time, become a existence that others dare not underestimate.
He said: "We will attack the terrorists in an all-round way, catch them at the airport and kill them at the airport, please forgive me for my statement, catch them in the toilet, and drown them in the toilet." Well, that's the end of the problem.
Resolving the Second Chechen War with iron blood quickly gained the support of the Russian people. Even in a meeting with the people of Chechnya, an elderly woman lovingly touched his face and said, "Don't give up on us, good boy." ”
Putin, who is tough on his opponents, shows a gentle side in his treatment of civilians.
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In December 1999, before the advent of the new century, the Russian political arena underwent great changes again.
On the last morning before the 20th century, he handed over the nuclear button box representing the power of the president to Putin, who had just been promoted to prime minister for four months, in the Kremlin.
Just when people thought Putin was going to celebrate, Putin made a surprising move. After the handover that morning, he told his subordinates that he would go to the war zone to cheer up the soldiers on the front line, and what was even more unexpected was that the plane he was riding on was shelled by the enemy. At the time, Putin thought it was a salute from local officials to welcome his arrival.
In a 2018 Documentary on Putin produced by Russian state television, he recalled the accident with a smile and said he then transferred to a car to the front line.
The official waiting for the reception said: "No one believed it, I didn't believe that he would come back at the time."
This is the difference between a great man and an ordinary man, and you can never guess what he thinks in his heart.