...”intelligence reported that Putin beat his wife Lyudmila when he was a KGB spy “....
That’s not true , and because it is common in Russia for men to do so one of the reasons ‘she said’ that she married Putin and stayed with him is because “he doesn’t drink and he doesn’t beat me”.
I’ll believe her words over that of a German reporting otherwise. She also said that though she knew she didn’t love him when they married she grew to as time went on.
Lyudmila is an interesting study and their divorce was no surprise as they’d been basically living separate lives for a long while. It was just a matter of time to make it public, but most knew. And most knew about Putins other woman as well.
Of course she could not publicly admit that Putin beat her. She has to say that he is a great guy and a fine moral upstanding gentleman. If you believe that you are quite gullible and your judgment about other matters should be dismissed as well. It says a lot about you that you accept her public statements at face value but do not believe the reporting of German spies who watched them covertly.
Putin is obviously a brutal and stupid man, the claim that he beat his wife rings true. He clearly did not value her as a wife since they have not lived as a true married couple and he threw her away like trash after she was loyal to him for so many years.