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OUTLINE:
0:00 Introduction
1:18 KGB
14:09 Communism
33:10 Childhood
39:57 Becoming a KGB agent
1:18:30 Training
1:32:19 Language
1:38:10 Moscow
1:53:11 Spying
2:10:09 Putin
2:13:01 War in Ukraine
2:24:28 Putin in the KGB
2:31:21 Yuri Bezmenov
2:41:59 FSB and CIA
2:49:49 Putin and Zelenskyy
2:58:39 Quitting the KGB
3:24:57 Love and regrets
3:33:10 Mortality

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