Putin: The Father Of The Soviet Union

Putin was a son to Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin (his father) and Maria Ivanovna Putina (his mother) on 7 October 1952 in modern-day Saint Petersburg. He was born in a ordinary family and was the youngest of three boys. Putin began schooling in 1960 at Baskov Lane where he took a distinctive liking for sport particularly sambo and judo. He was enthusiastic to follow in the footsteps of his father, who enlisted in the Soviet Navy and later served in the regular army and as an intelligence officer. He learned to speak German during his years as a student in Saint Petersburg High School before enrolling in the Law Department of the Leningrad State University. It is during his years as a university student that he joined the Communist Part of the Soviet Union where he continued to be a member until it was dissolved in late 1991. …show more content…
Upon his graduation, Putin joined KGB where he underwent training at the KGB school in Okhta, Leningrad. Putin’s charisma was noted by his supervisors, and he was elevated to briefly serving as the Second Chief Directorate before being made the First Chief Directorate where he was supposed to monitor consular officials in Leningrad. He was a good counter-intelligence officer that he was designated a Directorate S, one of the most skilled intelligence gathering units who use false identities to gather information in other nations. He served as a translator and interpreter owing to his fluent German but after the fall of the communist East German government, he returned to Leningrad after being recalled to the Soviet