My, my. You are given to hyperbole, aren't you?
You seem to be confusing Vladimir Putin and Laventi Beria.
Putin had nothing to do with the gulags, the pogroms, the purges, or the deportations of the 1930's and 1940's.
Putin's culpability is more or less equivalent to George H.W. Bush. Now, you are going to go off into some fugue about how I am spouting some sort of moral equivalcy between communism and free enterprise.
PLEASE. Don't insult my intelligence. I am making no such claim. Communism is inherently stupid and evil. It's no good even in theory, and in practice it's even worse.
But by the time Putin ascended to the top of the KGB, it was a shadow of what it once was. Putin was and is a bureaucrat, not a mass murderer like Beria.
Look, it's just a waste of time discussing things with you. You haven't a good knowledge of history, first of all, and besides, your grip on present reality isn't all that solid either.
I have better things to do that waste my time here further.
Finally!
Typical response.
And of course, he is not responsible for the deaths of close to 200,000 Chechens at the hands of the Russian Army since taking power.
A mere lightweight.