Putin claims he was a taxi driver after the fall of the Soviet Union to get more income

Russian president Vladimir Putin He claimed that after the collapse of the Soviet Union he was forced to drive a taxi to earn more income.

Putin, a former agent of the Soviet secret services KGB, who previously lamented the fall of the USSRHe added that its disintegration three decades earlier continues to be a “tragedy” for “many citizens.”

The comments, released by the state news agency RIA Novosti, are excerpts from an upcoming Channel One movie, titled “Russia. Recent history”.

“After all, what was the collapse of the Soviet Union? The collapse of historic Russia under the name of the Soviet Union “noted the Russian leader.

Loyal servant of the Soviet Union, Putin was very shocked when the USSR, an event for him called “the greatest geopolitical disaster of the twentieth century.”

Putin it is sensitive to the expansion of Western military ambitions towards the countries of the former Soviet Union, and Russia this week called for NATO to formally withdraw the decision made in 2008 to open its doors to Georgia and Ukraine.

The end of the Soviet Union coincided with a period of intense economic instability that plunged many into poverty, while the new Russia he was living the transition from communism to capitalism.

RIA-Novosti, citing excerpts from the documentary, noted that Putin revealed that he occasionally worked as a taxi driver to earn a little more money.

“Sometimes I had to earn extra money”, He said Putin.

“That means earning extra money as a private driver. It’s not nice to talk about this to be honest with you, but unfortunately that was the case. “

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