[GarySpFc]

Most encouraging. How could he practice the Faith while heading KGB operations in East Germany? This is not by way of fighting you but I will bet that I am not the only one here with that question. I am trying to steer this important discussion in a more constructive direction that it deserves.
Is there any indication of spiritual progress in Putin's heart since then? Absence of evidence is not proof of absence of Faith. Few public leaders anywhere wear their religious creeds boldly on their sleeves.

My wife was the director of a large school in the Volgograd Region. She helped develop a Christian curriculum for the schools which Putin signed into law. Give Putin credit for what the ACLU blocks in America.

[jb6]

while heading KGB operations in East Germany?

He was a colonel and a desk jockey in Dresden. If he headed operations he would have been a general and in Berlin.

[BlackElk]

I will give him credit for that and anything else deserving of credit, of which there appears to have been more than I suspected.