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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...

>> and he corners the rat, and then the rat lunges at him, and all of a sudden he's defending himself and the rat is chasing him rather than he chase the at. >> he escaped the rat, but in putin's tellings of this tale it has had a moral. remember, he says. it is better not to corner anyone. it would be a theme throughout vladimir putinin's life, trapped in a corner only to fight his way out. remember, as a young kgb resident in dresden he was unarmed, outnumbered, face-to-face with an angry mob, yet he still managed to turn the tables, but then in 1990, he encountered a force he could not defe...

Child of a janitor and a factory worker. >> his parents were working class. they worked all the time. >> young putin often got into fights. >> he took up judo because he was small. he was short, and he wanted some advantage over the bigger stronger boys. >> the childhood bully putin recalls most vividly was not another boy, it was a rat. when i saw one, he says, i will chase it. it was a game. he would scare them off with a stick, but one day one rat refused to run. >> and he corners the rat, and then the rat lunges at him, and all of a sudden he's defending himself and the rat is chasing him ...