New Documentary Paints Vladimir Putin As "Lazy, Drunken KGB Spy"

Mark Melin

Published onFebruary 18, 2015

Updated on May 13, 2021

Citing a variety of interviews with former colleagues and secret police documents, documentary paints unfaltering picture of the man who is threatening Ukraine and the west

Russian President Vladimir Putin has survived five recent assassination attempts and when he was a KGB spy he was prepared to shoot peaceful East German demonstrators in 1989, a new documentary claims.

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The documentary, “Putin the Man,” aired on German TV Tuesday and has raised eyebrows in the press for its rather loud claims that branded Vladimir Putin a “lazy, drunken spy” during his time working in the KGB’s Dresden field office who regularly beat his wife.

Mark Melin

Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.