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a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. ♪ >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. >> the berlin wall had come down. police weren't going to help, and he called for instructions. >> desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow over and over again. finally one official told him simply moscow is silent. >> and i think it felt like a deep betrayal ...

december 5th, 1989. it was a cold night in dredden, east germany. and it would change the course of vladamir putin's life. the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany, angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden, they found a target. a local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. ♪ ♪ >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> putin was a junior o...

Rose. >> 300 years of history erased. >> soviet institutions ceased to exist. among them vladimir putin's beloved kgb. >> it wasn't clear who he was anymore. >> suddenly russia began to look like the united states. >> today we're opening the first mcdonald's in moscow. >> it's very nice. i like t. >> big mac. coca-cola, coca-cola. >> almost overnight. >> mickey mouse. >> new freedoms, capitalism, western values. ♪ >> it all looked great from the west. ♪ i'm a cowboy ♪ >> to vladimir putin, it was a catastrophe. >> vladimir putin views the break-up of the soviet union, as he said himself,...

Glasnost, people are talking more freely. >> there's a sense that things are changing. >> a romance with things western the popular culture begins to transform, the media opens up, all in very rough ways. >> freedom came fast and it exposed the rock at the heart of communism. >> all of a sudden anything was possible. >> three of the most powerful republics have joined forces and declared the old union dead. >> in 1991 the soviet union finally collapsed. >> 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 h...