Peach
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putin never murdered any American citizens
but his whole centralized government thing, just bothers me
We do not know, he allegedly tailed Reagan, when Reagan went to Moscow, we do know Putin went straight from college to the KGB, in 1975:
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, on October 7, 1952. After graduating from Leningrad State University in 1975, he began his career in the KGB as an intelligence officer. Stationed mainly in East Germany, he held that position until 1989.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Putin retired from the KGB with the rank of colonel, and returned to Leningrad as a supporter of Anatoly Sobchak (1937-2000), a liberal politician. After Sobchak won election as mayor of Leningrad (1991), Putin became his head of external relations; in 1994, Putin became Sobchak's first deputy mayor.
http://www.biography.com/people/vladimir-putin-9448807#synopsis&awesm=~oIwDUzOzMmmAlM
Some sources report he was KGB in college, turning in other students who dared speak against the Communists.