The quote below is from Catherine Belton’s Putin’s People. It’s a great read. It’s complicated at the beginning, especially with all the different characters and those unpronounceable Russian names. But if you stay with it you will discover it is a fascinating account about how Vladimir Putin is where the is today.
One has to ask the question is it true? And if so how come western intelligence did not know what was happening.
“Putin had become obsessed with the media’s power, knowing all too well how, with the help of Berezovsky’s TV channel, he’d been transformed from a nobody into the country’s most popular leader.
“He was aware that without control of the country’s federal TV channels, that could change at any time.”
Vladimir Putin knew exactly what he had to do and he did it. [Page 203]
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