himself to be the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century. it whats a traumatic time and it sparked a profound change in vladimir putin. he became a politician, deputy mayor in his hometown of st. petersburg. it was not a big job but putin clearly had big dreams. [ speaking russian ] he commissioned this rarely seen documentary about himself presenting vladimir putin the credits read in power. weirdly, the soundtrack is from the broadway show cats. the ambitious putin may have already been looking towards moscow because the russian
vladimir putin. he became a politician, deputy mayor in his hometown of st. petersburg. it was not a big job, but putin clearly had big dreams. he commissioned this rarely seen documentary about himself, presenting vladimir putin, the credits read, in power. weirdly the sound soundtrack from the broadway show cats. the ambitious putin may already have been looking towards moscow because the russian people were desperate for strong leadership. under president boris yeltsin the new democracy was a mess. the entire soviet system, it just collapsed. the oligarchs, the men who profited on the spoils of
rising up. and finally, the people won. tonight in moscow at the kremlin, the red flag of the failed soviet union at last came down, and the flag of russia rose. 300 years of history erased. soviet institutions like the kgb simply ceased to exist. vladimir putin views the breakup of the soviet union as he said himself, to be the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century. it was a traumatic time. and it sparked a profound change in vladimir putin. he became a politician, deputy mayor in his hometown of st. petersburg. it was not a big job, but putin
the people rising up. and finally the people won. tonight in moscow at the kremlin the red flag of the failed soviet union at last came down and the flag of russia rose. 300 years of history erased. soviet institutions like the kgb simply ceased to exist. vladimir putin views the break-up of the soviet union as he says himself to be the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century. it was a traumatic time, and it sparked a profound change in vladimir putin. he became a politician, deputy mayor in his hometown of st. petersburg. it was not a big job, but putin clearly had big dreams.
rose. 300 years of history erased. reporter: soviet institutions like the kgb simply ceased to exist. vladimir putin views the breakup of the soviet union as he said himself, to be the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century. reporter: it was a traumatic time, and it sparked a profound change in vladimir putin. he became a politician, deputy mayor in his hometown of st. petersburg. it was not a big job, but putin clearly had big dreams. he commissioned this rarely seen documentary about himself, presenting vladimir putin, the credit s read, in power.