President Putin was born in 1952, seven years after the end of World War II. His older brother was killed during the Siege of Leningrad, and his parents barely survived. He grew up in a crowded communal apartment with a shared kitchen and bathroom, full of rats and cockroaches. In his autobiography, he recalls how, as a boy, he had to fight rats on the stairs. “Once, I found a huge rat and chased it down the hall until I cornered it. Suddenly, the rat went wild and threw itself at me. It jumped off the landing and then down the stairs.”
his famous tone A story about a cornered rat According to Professor Nina Khrushchev, great-granddaughter of former Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev, they can be more or less aggressive depending on the audience. Talk about 2023 BBC Podcast Putin“He talks about his humble upbringing and how far he has come and what kind of enemies he has had to endure in his life, how he began to endure the lowest of creatures and then moved on to the higher “I always decided to tell this story to show how much I’ve risen to the level,” she said. It is to confront all kinds of enemies, both domestic and foreign. ”
in the shadow
My childhood friend, psychologist Maria Osolina, told the BBC In 2003, he described the harsh environment in which they grew up as a “survival of the fittest.” “He was small and thin and rather weak, because he was born to old parents, and therefore it was very important for him to be strong so that he wouldn’t get beaten,” she said. Said.
She said her family had strong values of duty, patriotism and loyalty. “His parents loved him very much. He was the center of their world, the son they had been waiting for. However, their personalities were very restrained by nature and they did not show much emotion. He was very cold on the outside and his mother would never have thought of kissing him in public.”
