history of being not a good communicator, which continues to this day in some of these rounding speeches that he is given. you are right, according to first-person, his kgb instructors found him with don and tightlipped, and even his former wife understood him so poorly that, when he was proposing marriage, she thought he was breaking things off. how did such a poor communicator get control of the russian government? >> that's a really interesting story. it's part of the history of vladimir putin. he wasn't considered to be necessarily a big up and comer after he came back to russia. after the fall of the wall, after the end of the cold war. he had a not super high level job working in the mayor's