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It was described as an interesting book based on interviews with Putin from the 2000s, which described Putin's perspective on the importance of not backing down when cornered, using the metaphor of a rat.
One of the most interesting books I've read in the last couple of years has been a book that was based on a long series of interviews in done, I think, in 2000s or maybe 1999 with Putin. And it's kind...
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It was described as an interesting book based on interviews with Putin from the 2000s, which described Putin's perspective on the importance of not backing down when cornered, using the metaphor of a rat.
One of the most interesting books I've read in the last couple of years has been a book that was based on a long series of interviews in done, I think, in 2000s or maybe 1999 with Putin. And it's kind of Putin in his own words. And one of the stories he tells that was you stop me if you've heard this because I think it's quite well known now, but he tells a story about when he was growing up in what was then Leningrad in a sort of fairly in his apartment block. He and his friends used to play on the stairwell. And one time he was charging up and down there and he came across a rat and he cornered the rat. And he describes how the cornered rat at some point then flew for his neck. And he he describes this and he says, you know, he makes the point that, you know, this taught him a life lesson of how what happens when people are cornered.