Communal Putin: where did the future president of Russia

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Russian President Vladimir Putin had a rather difficult childhood.

This conclusion was reached by a journalist. Mirrorwho visited a communal apartment in St. Petersburg, in which the future head of Russia grew up, and also spoke to those who knew him.

The publication's correspondent Andy Lines found the house in St. Petersburg where the future politician grew up and talked with his old acquaintances. The journalist said that Putin was born in the slums at a time when “gangs roamed the streets, violent fights were common, and children were dying of hunger.”

“It’s hard to believe that someone who lives in such poverty can become one of the richest and most powerful people in the world,” said the British journalist.

An unnamed friend of Putin’s childhood said that life in harsh conditions hardened the character of the future president.

“He learned to survive on these streets. It was a cruel and vile school - the strongest survived. This gave him the strength to believe that anything is possible,” the man said.

Allegedly in the communal apartment there were a lot of rats, and the duties of the young Putin included the killing of rodents. A friend of the president admitted to the publication that one of the bites was a lifelong lesson for the future president.

“I later heard Putin say more than once: never drive a rat into a corner,” said a childhood friend of the Kremlin head.

The journalist tried to visit an apartment on the fourth floor at the address: Baskov Pereulok, 12, where Putin grew up, but the new owners refused him.

Another long-time acquaintance of the Russian president spoke about how the future politician behaved at school.

“It was a very violent place, and when Putin was young, he was a bad boy. He teamed up with a gang of young people, and it wasn't easy. It was a very, very bad area and there were a lot of gangs there,” he said.

Allegedly, after the leader of the gang was planted, Putin took up his mind and began to play sports - first boxing, then judo and sambo. In 18 years he was already a champion of St. Petersburg.

Putin decided on his future profession as a teenager: it was then that he wanted to become a spy. One of the president’s friends told how “young Volodya” checked the “signs from the KGB” every day in the city park.

“One of the neighbors teased him by sticking a piece of chewing gum under a park bench. He pretended that this was a secret password for the KGB, and Putin fell for it,” said Putin’s friend.

After working in the KGB station in Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the future president was thinking about ending his career, Putin’s 40-year-old Putin was going to become a taxi driver at some point. However, his career dramatically changed familiarity with high-ranking politicians.

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