[lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat

[Chris Doss]

Putin's job was gathering intelligence in West
Germany. He wasn't a secret policeman. I assume he
thought of himself as a patriotic Soviet citizen
protecting his country from the West. He says he was
first drawn to the KGB by watching the movie "Sword
and Shield" as a child. But since the KGB approached
you for recruitment rather than vice versa, he went to
university and then law school (or was that later? I
know he has a Ph.D. in law.). Then the KGB recruited
him as someone with talent. (If I remember the book of
interviews with him that came out when he first became
president correctly, that is.)

--- andie nachgeborenen
<andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:


> How else would you describe a secret policeman,
> Charles?
> 
> 
> --- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
> 
> > Chris Doss 
> > 
> > 
> > Putin was a KGB clerk/functionary for God's sake.
> He
> > was not a "super-privileged functionary." He
> > probably
> > earned less than I do. 
> > 
> > ^^^^^
> > CB: Ah , but he was one of those evil,
> undemocratic
> > apparatchniks, no ?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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