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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(06:52) – KGB

(19:43) – Communism

(38:45) – Childhood

(45:32) – Becoming a KGB agent

(1:24:04) – Training

(1:37:53) – Language

(1:43:45) – Moscow

(1:58:45) – Spying

(2:15:43) – Putin

(2:18:35) – War in Ukraine

(2:30:02) – Putin in the KGB

(2:36:56) – Yuri Bezmenov

(2:47:33) – FSB and CIA

(2:55:24) – Putin and Zelenskyy

(3:04:13) – Quitting the KGB

(3:30:32) – Love and regrets

(3:38:44) – Mortality