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Yep, his job was to monitor dissidents in a backwater. He wasn’t John Wick, though he was legitimately talented at judo in his younger years.This. The guy was a middling KGB agent who was basically exiled to a dead end do nothing post for the first half of his career. His cover was door to door shoe salesman. He started to come into his own when he got moved to east Germany (Dresden) and honed his skills working with - bastions of humanity and morality - the stasi and the Red Army Faction. It was basically a perfect finishing school for Eastern European gangsters. He’s an opportunistic thug that developed a network of more skilled opportunistic thugs that helped him strike when the time was right. He consolidated power and insured their loyalty with a combination of horrifying brutality (the vast majority of which the west won’t learn about for decades, if ever) and insane levels of wealth.
Anyone comfortable with leaders like him having a seat at any table of any geopolitical cachet or consequence is too ignorant for words. He’s Stalin limited by the Information Age.
Father was a staunch communist, grandfather was Lenin’s cook. Food for thought when Trump’s disciples call Biden a communist