Thursday, 5. September 2002
Topic: - on September 5, 2002 at 3:31:50 AM CEST
Putin Feared Might Become Cabby When Quit KGB
Russian President Vladimir Putin feared he might be left jobless and reduced to driving a cab when he quit the KGB during the 1991 Hardline communist coup, according to a biography launched Wednesday. "To be honest, I thought then: if the coup plotters triumph and they don't put me in jail, how am I going to support my family, how?!" he says in the book of the turbulent coup attempt in August 1991, which triggered the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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