[Slyfox]

From the article:

Putin said he sincerely believed in Communist ideology when he served in the KGB, adding that while promises of a fair and just society in the Communist ideology resembled the Bible quite a lot but the reality was different. Our country did not look like the City of the Sun, envisaged by socialist utopians, he said.

That is quite telling.

[tcrlaf]

Putin was a student of Yuri Andropov’s.

Andropov knew the Soviet System was doomed, and was trying to reform it from within. Putin’s support of Yeltsin during the coup says a lot, as well.

[donna]

That must be what Dubya saw and spoke of.