Vladimir Putin will order assassinations in Europe if Russia takes control of Ukraine, a former KGB officer has said.
Maj Gen Oleg Kalugin, who is safe in the US, told the Sunday Mirror Putin would seek revenge for the sanctions imposed by Europe.
He said: “The Russians would not dare mount assassinations in the USA but because Europe has, over decades, shown weakness they assess it’s possible to do it in Europe.”
Gen Kalugin was Putin’s boss when he ran the KGB’s Leningrad office.
He said: “I did not see him as particularly talented. It was the mayor of Leningrad who singled out Putin as a reliable lackey for Boris Yeltsin [then Russian leader] so he got transferred. The rest is history.
“You need to understand Putin’s psyche. He is deeply lonely. His wife left him and his daughters cut themselves off. He has delusions of grandeur and massive megalomania.
“Breaking diplomatic relations with Russia is essential. When Russians see Putin has turned the motherland into a pariah state, this will ruin his reputation inside the country. Then it’s up to his generals.”
Oleg Kalugin was Putin’s boss in the KGB
Putin has a long background with the KGB.
According to the Kremlin website, Putin wanted to work in intelligence “even before he finished school”, and volunteered at 16.
He holds a law degree from Leningrad State University plus a doctorate in economics, and was picked from 100 or more students for the KGB.
Pavel Koshelev, a college classmate and fellow KGB officer, said: “His most outstanding trait, I would say, was his fighting spirit and his strong will to achieve his goals.’’
In the late 1980s, Putin was posted to Dresden, East Germany, reportedly to work in counter-espionage.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he rose to become head of the KGB’s successor, the FSB, and then Boris Yeltsin’s successor when he resigned in 1999.
Putin said his KGB career prepared him for presidency.
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No surprise here: Putin is a man of conviction; Ole, slo’, “Joe Bite-me” is a less than man who MUST be convicted but won’t because the Right is afraid to fight – end of story, deal with it, fools!
Not if he is greeted by one first
What are you people going to say when Putins hit men start knocking people off in Europe and probably the U.S., just tell him he is not playing fair. We don’t believe in doing these nasty things. I am sure he will listen.
An ex-KGB agent who was Mr. Putin’s boss at one time said he did not see Mr. Putin as “particularly talented”. He was probably a bit surprised, and maybe angered, when the not so particularly talented young man rose in the ranks to the top of the KGB and beyond. I suspect he dislikes the man and will say anything to put him in a bad light.
What else does Putin have to say or do before people in Europe take him seriously? he has said if Ukraine falls, he will start sending men to execute prominent people in Europe, so if European people don’t want to suddenly start dying they had better get their head out of their behind and do something about his threats, this note not only Appleys to Europe it also Appleys to our demented lame brain cheating office stealing president, he had better stop financing Putin’s war by buying gas from Russia and start paying attention to what he is saying about taking over America, he knows Biden is a coward and will try to wiggle his way out of confronting Putin, but if coward Biden doesn’t find a backbone America will eventually face what Ukraine is facing now