Paul Goble
Staunton,
August 4 – When Vladimir Putin was serving as a KGB officer in East Germany, he
had the reputation among his fellow Soviet intelligence officers of being
especially hostile to Ukrainians, Ukrainian Lt. Gen. Vasily Bohdan tells Marina
Yevtushok of the Apostrophe news agency.
Bohdan,
author of a new book on Putin’s responsibility for the Russian Anschluss of
Crimea and the war in the Donbass, says he was in the service at that time and
heard others say this and other negative things about the future Kremlin leader
(apostrophe.ua/article/world/ex-ussr/2018-08-04/putin-esche-vo-vremya-slujbyi-v-razvedke-ploho-otnosilsya-k-ukraintsam-i-zakladyival-kolleg/19662).
Anti-Ukrainian attitudes were hardly
unknown among Russians in the KGB and otherwise 30 and 40 years ago. Many
memoirs report similar attitudes among others. Consequently, this account is eirely
plausible and perhaps even likely. But it is obviously indirect evidence at
best and thus should be treated with caution.
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