![]() ![]() But it’s also good fodder for Putinologists, struggling to decipher what drives the man who has so completely ruled Russia for the last 15 years. ![]() And I gave them orders: If anyone enters the compound, they are to open fire.” With that, he turned and walked back into the house. “This house is strictly guarded,” he said in an even tone, in fluent German. Dressed in his military uniform but with no pistol, no orders and no backup, he walked out to the gate where the crowd had assembled. Shocked that the Soviet Union was so weakened that it couldn’t even defend the sensitive documents inside the building, he decided to take matters into his own hands. But no higher authority would approve it. Watching the approaching mob, Putin called the local Soviet military command and asked for reinforcements. ![]() residence where Lieutenant Colonel Putin, a young intelligence officer, stood looking out the window. ![]() Once they were done ransacking the offices that had inspired so much terror, they directed their anger down the street toward the K.G.B. It takes place in Dresden in the fall of 1989, in the dying days of East Germany, on the night that thousands of protesters stormed the city’s Stasi headquarters. ![]()
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