He was a lawyer.
Putin studied law for his first degree but went immediately into the KGB where he claims to have retired as a lieutenant colonel and in time became head of the KGB’s replacement agency, the FSB.
I don’t think he was ever a lawyer.
No way. Sitting there in Dresden, Putin was like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible. Hanging from the ceiling by a wire, avoiding the lasers, stealing the secrets to the Coca Cola formula.... killing anyone who got in his way.
And you say he was just another commissioned functionary in an office in Dresden, deep in East Germany?