Only the ignorant punks at Time Magazine and the rest of the MSM would compare Putin to Reagan, No one should even use their names in the same sentence.
Putin was head of the KGB and a committed Communist. Reagan stopped the spread of Communism and helped end their power and influence.
Reagan described the Communist state as an evil empire.
They could not be more different.
“Putin was head of the KGB”
Putin was never head of the KGB.
The highest he ever got was Deptuty Chief of the International Affairs section at Leningrad State University.
There is so much false info out there about Putin, it’s just nuts.
Until he was handpicked in August by then-President Boris Yeltsin to become prime minister, Putin had never been a public figure. He spent 17 years as a mid-level agent in the Soviet KGB’s foreign intelligence wing, rising only to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Later, as an aide to a prickly, controversial mayor of St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city and Putin’s home town, he made a point of staying in the background.
Yet Putin’s career also suggests that he witnessed firsthand the momentous finale of the Cold War. From the front line in East Germany, Putin saw how the centrally planned economies of the East staggered to disintegration. In St. Petersburg, he had a taste of the ragged path of Russia’s early transition to a free-market, democratic system.
What Putin has taken from these experiences is not entirely clear. He has embraced the conviction that “there is no alternative” to market democracy, and soberly acknowledged Russia’s economic weaknesses. But he also has expressed enthusiasm for reasserting the role of a strong state. He has said the Russian economy has become “criminalized,” but so far only hinted that he would tackle the powerful tycoons who lord over it. Putin has vowed Russia will not revert to totalitarianism, but he has not demonstrated much skill working with Russia’s fledgling, competitive political system.
Putin has never campaigned for office, and he told an interviewer two years ago he found campaigns distasteful. “One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill,” he said. “So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/russiagov/putin.htm