How Did Vladimir Putin Go From Street Kid To The Kremlin? | Putin: A Russian Spy Story | BBC Select

This three-part Vladimir Putin documentary series on BBC Select explores the Russian President’s rise to power. From street kid to spy to shaping modern Russia. Told through Putin’s own words, those that know him and examining those influenced by his actions, this Vladimir Putin TV series looks at his time with the KGB, his twenty plus years at the Kremlin and what his lasting legacy might be?

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[eliasziad]

Putin has some of the weirdest, yet most Russian looks ever.

[Mgeey]

Always know that your current situation isn't your final destination.
Imagine how he went through a lot of processes, pains, spying as a KGB officer lastly he succeeded... From a street kid to the Top Job in Russia.

[edwinsiala]

Everybody in the West has become an expert on Putin.

[michaelh]

Young Putin just looks like the Home Alone kid.

[slee]

"... he sent his friends to her (to ask her out) and she said no." That is ingenious . And says a lot about Vladimir putin.

[PearlyFostter]

0:46 Funny how it ALL STARTED with a Character....

[kochoshi]

0:02 He looks like a kid Macaulay Culkin

[lightningspeed]

How every successful people have their On-grind images?? It feels like everything was written.

[elbabeolchi]

I noticed that there many individuals that love crime and cruelty, but there more that want peace and progress

[ockhtss]

LIES: Putin' s grandfather was a Cook Who Worked for Lenin! That's the key to his profession / life, based on his many strengths & the weaknesses mastered to suit / serve his purposes! Although I disagree with the politics of this world, violence, wars & evil deeds, truth must be told as it

[TheDYNAMITE]

Listen love him or hate him, this guy is 21st century's biggest badass. I say that as fact. What he's doing, most of us have only read about or watched in movies.

[JGADND]

His handsome he got a simple and natural handsome face whether you love him or hate him

[matfudge]

He looks like the type of person who lives next door and sees a mouse. Then goes to his neighbors house with a full automatic MG busts down the door and shoots them while they are sitting on the couch then leaves saying 'I was only trying to shoot the mouse behind the couch as we have a mouse problem at home'.

[mirnamendieta]

De verdad.
Cómo puede ser que lo que hemos visto en la película de espías.
Sea una realidad?

Es decir.
Parece la misma persona.

[sterlthepearl]

Interesting video. However as constructive criticism it left out how long this guy was in the KGB?

I wanted to know after watching this. So I just asked Chatgbt how long and it told me


"Vladimir Putin served as a KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) officer for approximately 16 years. He joined the KGB in 1975 and worked as an intelligence officer in the foreign intelligence division. Putin's service in the KGB included assignments in East Germany and the Soviet Union, where he specialized in counterintelligence and espionage. He left the KGB in 1991 when the organization was dissolved following the collapse of the Soviet Union."

[odiethedoberman]

A legend who ll free Asia from the western leader's

[inaskad]

His eyes..they have always been something

[jantelopez]

by being sent to his grandparents by his georgian mother and then being adopted by relatives who had lost both their children .. that makes more sense than no memory until he was 8 years old.

[candyjay]

I like Putin. He appears to be interesting.

[maryleibfried]

He does look like a tough kid when young at least emotionally.
And very serious and calculating.
Either that or he wasn't too thrilled about picture day.☺️