Shocking Confessions: Putin Opens Up About the Numerous Attempts on His Life

It is impossible to reach any agreement with Russia if you treat it aggressively, and our partners should have it very clear, as Vladimir Putin declared in his interview to Andrey Kondrashov.

It is impossible to reach any agreement with Russia if you treat it aggressively, and our partners should have it very clear, as Vladimir Putin declared in his interview to Andrey Kondrashov. The new part of his documentary has already been published on the Web, namely on the vk.com and odnoklassniki.ru pages of Dmitry Kiselev, author and host of Vesti News of the Week. The second part of the film is just as sensational as the first one.

Igor Kozhevin, has already watched it.

 

Vladimir Putin: "Be softer to people. If you want to be wiser, don’t hurt people with your wisdom".

It is the first time Putin quotes Omar Khayyam when formulating one of his philosophy principles. The documentary is full of things that few people knew before, for various reasons.

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany: "It’s well known that the Russian president likes German beer. Sometimes we get to exchange gifts. For my part, I once got some very good smoked fish".

That’s how Angela Merkel added to the words of Putin from the new part of the film.

- By the way, Angela from time to time gives me a bottle or two of Radeberger beer.

- You mean Angela Merkel?

-   Yes. If I come, she always asks me what I’d like to have as a gift. And then answers the question herself, for she knows I like the Radenberger.

Putin tells us about his work in Germany. Here are the pictures from an album that hasn’t yet been declassified. The album belongs to Colonel Lazar Matveyev, who Putin worked for at the time. We can also see the house where Putin lived in Dresden.

The Putins’ apartment was in the second floor.

Here are the cafes he loved.

The office he used to go to in the KGB mansion, where protesters came on December 5, 1989, demanding being allowed to see the archives, after having taken by assault the State Security Ministry building in Dresden.

Vladimir Putin: "I came out to ask the people what they wanted. They told me they’d like to look through the building. I said the building belonged to the Soviet army and wasn’t subject to any inspections according to the intergovernmental agreement".

Sigfried Dannat-Grabs, Dresden resident: "He started speaking fluent German, which the crowd hadn’t expected. Of course they got scared of the assertive officer".

Lazar Matveev, Head of Soviet recon team in Dresden (1982-1989): "He had an ability to talk to people, get along well with them".

The only ones Putin wouldn’t talk to and try to meet halfway are terrorists. Here’s one of the most difficult moments: the assault of the theater in Dubrovka with about 1,000 hostages.

Vladimir Putin: "They planned to put the hostages on a bus, drive to the Red Square and shoot them right there, throwing the dead bodies on the street".

It was decided to use an anesthetic gas through the ventilation shaft, get in, eliminate the terrorists, who threatened to blow up the hall.

Vladimir Putin: "They started controlling visually everything that was happening inside, and then cutting out where needed with lock saws. I got a call from the Head of the FSB, when it was already time to attack, and reported that the gas had been let in, but it didn’t work. And we couldn’t wait anymore. I asked him if the group was ready. He said yes. I asked if they were willing to go without the gas".

- Despite the fact that the gas didn’t work?

- Yes.  He said they were. He said they would go if I ordered. And I told him to start.

When the interview was over, with no microphones, Putin said that after having given the order to start attack, he went to the part of Kremlin that had long ago been made into a chapel. And after being left alone, for the first time in his life he kneeled before the saints. After a while, the President received a report saying that the gas had started working and the assault had started.

Alexandra Rudakova, terrorist hostage in 2002: "Thank God that decision was made. It is the reason I am still alive".

Vladimir Putin, 2002: "We failed to save everyone. Please forgive us. This enemy is strong and dangerous, ruthless and cruel. It is international terrorism. They have no future. And we do".

- Is it true that your life has been attempted at various times?

- Do you think it should be mentioned?

The first attempt we know about was being prepared in late 2000, in Baku. The terrorists were infiltrated through the so-called humanitarian missions to support Ichkeria. A call from Khotab revealed the terrorist from Iraq. They planned to blow up the headstones in the Alley of the Heroes.

Indrat Fatullaev, MNS of Azerbaijan (1999 — 2004): "Those devices could have been used to make a number of explosions simultaneously, with just one phone call".

The special forces of the two countries worked together. After negotiations with Heydar Aliyev, the bilateral relations started developing more actively.

Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy (2001 — 2006, 2008 — 2011): "Vladimir is just the opposite of how he is depicted by Western media. They describe him as a talented but cold and cynical person. This couldn’t be more different from what he is really like".

Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany (1998 — 2005): "None of us have forgotten where we come from. It is good for a politician to have had some tough experience".

Here we can see Putin showing George W. Bush his first car, the Zaporozhets his mother won in a lottery. His parents could have sold it.

Vladimir Putin: "I remember our family discussion. My parents sat down together to think what to do about it. And all of a sudden, my mom said, ‘Let our son have it.’ Can you just imagine what it meant for my parents? I didn’t even know if they could afford the gasoline for it, and yet still they made such a decision. It was incredible".

Had he been in his parents’ shoes, he would most likely have done the same. Putin recalls when Sobchak lost, leaving him unemployed.

Vladimir Putin: "To be honest, I even thought of making some money as a cab driver. No kidding, I had to survive somehow. I had two little kids to raise, after all".

Yakovlev, the new mayor, invited Putin to work for him. But he said something that is still remembered by everyone who heard it.

Igor Sechin: "It’s better to be shot for loyalty than hanged for betrayal".

When asked if one can contradict Putin, most people say you can try, but only if you have a really reliable point. However, the result sorts everything out. Sometimes it can even be weighed.

Vladimir Putin: "I have never gotten such a big pike before".

- How long was the pike?

Vladimir Putin: I don’t remember.

- Fishers can show the fish size using their hands.

Vladimir Putin: Well, it was about this big.

- When someone says that this pike must have been specially put in the water for him…

Sergey Shoygu, Minister of Defence of the RF: "Then he wouldn’t have needed to go that far. He could have done it right here, in the Moskva River".

Everyone who knows Putin knows that he hates this kind of thing and prefers going the extra mile. It is the only way to do things in Russia.

Igor Kozhevin, Alexander Berezhnoy,Vesti