Vladimir Putin: Interesting Facts and Questionable Stunts

Putin’s Obsession With Spies

Upon graduation from Saint Petersburg State University in 1975, he was recruited by the KGB and studied at KGB school No.1 Moscow. It is noted that before he even finished school he was interested in intelligence and in the 1980’s he helped the Soviet secret police spy on the West. This is particularly interesting considering the fascination and obsession that he was with spy novels. In a quote about his love for these novels he notes, “What amazes me most of all is how one man’s effort could achieve what whole armies could not.”