Posted on 02/24/2015 12:57:51 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Vladimir Putin was regularly violent to his ex-wife Lyudmila during their marriage, a German documentary on the Russian leader has claimed.
Putin the Man, made by ZDF television and shown this week, claimed to have been given access to the unseen files of an unidentified Western intelligence agency. They included details of Mr Putin’s time as a young KGB officer stationed in Dresden in the Eighties, as well as his rise to power in Russia.
A secretary inside the Dresden office code-named “Lehnchen”, who befriended Mrs Putin, told how he used to beat his wife regularly.
Far from his image as a fitness fanatic today, the young Mr Putin was overweight and a heavy drinker, according to the documentary.
“He was depressed, fat, lazy and disillusioned,” Mahsa Gessen, an author and activist told the documentary. The files included the testimony of a woman identified as “Mrs H” who said Mr Putin groped her at a party, and that his colleagues blamed it on alcohol.
It was the collapse of his KGB career, caused by the fall of the Soviet Union, that made Mr Putin turn his life around and fight his way back to the centre of power, according to the documentary.
It presented new evidence that he has misrepresented an incident from 1989, when anti-Communist protesters tried to storm the KGB office in Dresden before the Berlin Wall fell. Mr Putin has always claimed that he talked the protesters down while posing as an interpreter. But Siegfried Dannath, one of the demonstrators, told the film-makers that Mr Putin had appeared in full uniform and told the crowd his men had orders to shoot.
That version was corroborated by Sergei Bezrukov, a former KGB colleague of Mr Putin’s.
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Well, at least they have a hetero president.
So what’s it going to take to turn the Obama around? Why is everybody else’s back ground open and there are no records for Chicago Jesus?
Sounds like they got Pooty mixed up with Muhammad.
Was he on that island with the Prince and Bill Clinton?
No, orgy island has underage girls. Putin likes little boys.
Putin your typical Soviet Psychopathy
There seems to much wrong with the man, the West needs to show a strong front against him.
You were there to witness all this? You should call the National Enquirer...
So it’s a feel good story...redemption and all that?
Putin said Islam was an ancient religion based on “eternal values of kindness, mercifulness and justice.”
Putin is a punk and anybody who admires him is a punk too.
Article doesn’t mention the role of Religion in the transformation of Putin. I believe it had a role (how large can be debated) but it did and does have a role in the present incarnation of Vlad Putin.
The West? Strong?
This is a joke, right? The “leader of the free world” is a limp-wristed pansy that wears “mom jeans”. We’re not intimidating anyone until he is gone.
Putin serves Satan the Devil.
True. Putin is a punk and anybody who admires his is a punk.
Some people just want a strongman [pun intended].
There you go, back to your old arguments again. If you despised Mr. Obama half as much as Mr. Putin, I might see your point. What has Vladimir Putin ever done to you? Barack Obama messes with our lives on a daily basis. Plus, of course someone’s enemies are going to accuse them of foul deeds, that’s how the world works. Doesn’t mean it’s true or false without proof. Who here “admires” Mr. Putin?
Obama and Putin are comrades and butt buddies.
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