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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Vladimir Putin is a wife-beater,' has had facelift, assassination attempts: new documentary
Wife beater; KGB failure; threatened to shoot Berlin Wall protesters; these are among the relevations in new documentary.
Vladimir Putin regularly used violence against his divorced wife Lyudmila, a new German documentary about the Russian leader has claimed.
Putin the Man, made by ZDF television and shown for the first time this week, claimed to have been given access to previously unseen files of an unidentified Western intelligence agency.
The files include details of Mr Putins time as a young KGB officer stationed in Dresden in the eighties, as well as his later rise to power in Russia.
They contain information from a secretary inside the Dresden KGB office codenamed Lehnchen, who befriended Mr Putin's ex-wife and said he used beat Lyudmila regularly.
Putin the Man, made by ZDF television and shown for the first time this week, claimed to have been given access to previously unseen files of an unidentified Western intelligence agency.
The files include details of Mr Putins time as a young KGB officer stationed in Dresden in the eighties, as well as his later rise to power in Russia.
They contain information from a secretary inside the Dresden KGB office codenamed Lehnchen, who befriended Mr Putin's ex-wife and said he used beat Lyudmila regularly.
Read more http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/11422969/Vladimir-Putin-is-a-wife-beater-and-six-other-claims-in-new-documentary.html
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'Vladimir Putin is a wife-beater,' has had facelift, assassination attempts: new documentary (Original Post)
uhnope
Feb 2015
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Color me totally unsurprised. Someone who engages in war crimes hardly cares about
stevenleser
Feb 2015
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stevenleser
(32,886 posts)1. Color me totally unsurprised. Someone who engages in war crimes hardly cares about
Human beings.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)2. So nothing to say about the US drones or bombs targeting civilians?
Or how the US rigs elections and supports coups?
Basically you're saying you support killing innocent people and blargle wargle argle.
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Warpy
(111,339 posts)3. Yes, and Hillary Clinton is a lesbian who murdered Vince Foster
I tend to take these political hatchet jobs with a pound of salt no matter what the source is. The truth is generally a lot less colorful although people who get to be world leaders, especially in Russia, are not generally nice people. They're the type who are willing to kick and claw their way to the top, worldwide.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)4. Kick nt