Putin personally tells why he became a KGB agent in his early years.

CCTV News:Putin’s life experience can be said to be legendary, especially the KGB agent experience in his early career, which is quite mysterious. As a "007" legend, Putin has begun to be filmed as a thrilling detective film, which is brave and invincible. However, do you know how Putin actually embarked on the road of agents?

On June 21, local time, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with senior teachers from some middle schools in the Kremlin to discuss the education of senior students with them. During this period, he also shared his KGB job-hunting experience.

Influenced by movies as a child, Putin dreamed of being a special agent.

Stills of the Soviet movie Sword and Shield

Putin recalled in his speech that the Soviet film Sword and Shield at that time had a great influence on his career choice.

"Sword and Shield" is adapted from Vajim Krevnikov’s novel of the same name. It describes the story of the struggle between the enemy and the enemy on the secret front during the Great Patriotic War and praises the immortal feats of the KGB hero of the Soviet national security department. Putin said that he was a little boy in middle school when he first saw the film, and he watched it many times later. This made him full of curiosity and yearning for the work of agents.

To this end, young Putin once ran directly to the Soviet KGB reception room.

Putin: I gave up math and physics courses directly to be a special agent.

Putin mentioned that since then I have completely given up physics, chemistry and mathematics, which is really true. I stopped studying these subjects directly because I need to master liberal arts courses, such as literature, foreign languages and history. My teachers are really wise, and I should thank them. Every time I look back, I am grateful. They saw at that time what I should do.

Putin: In addition to knowledge and practice, it is also very important. I have obtained a four-level woodworker certificate.

Putin also revealed that he wanted to be a pilot for some time, but after thinking, he thought that he was not interested in a single and modular life, so he gave up the idea. During the discussion, Putin said that it is not enough for middle school students to have profound knowledge, but also to love labor. He recalled that when he was young, he also obtained a certificate of carpentry level 4 in the construction team.

After graduating from the law department of Leningrad University in 1975, Putin was assigned to work in the National Security Council (KGB) and began his career as a KGB. After training in Moscow KGB College, Putin came to the First General Administration (General Administration of Foreign Intelligence) to engage in espionage.

For the history of working in the KGB, Putin believes that it is a cause of defending justice with personal conscience. Putin said: "I am sure that I defended the just cause at that time: I honestly worked for my country, worked for my motherland, and never thought of myself from morning till night. I know that I am doing something useful for my people. " Putin has no regrets about the experience of the KGB. He thinks that there is "nothing to be ashamed of". "I always try to be upset about nothing. Generally speaking, I am not upset about anything. It should be said that I am not upset about this matter. If everything is reversed, as people often say in this situation, I will still do the same thing. I have nothing to be shy about my past life. I was a very successful intelligence officer and I have been working for the interests of my motherland. "

Putin’s work has been praised many times. In 1987, the former East Germany held a commemorative meeting at the headquarters of the secret police in Dresden to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution. At the meeting, Putin was awarded a gold medal in recognition of his firm belief in the cause and his outstanding contribution to the socialist country. In October 1990, Germany and Germany were reunified. The new Germany was called the Federal Republic of Germany and was a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was impossible for the KGB, the official intelligence agency of the Soviet Union, to openly operate in Germany, and the KGB personnel in the former East Germany had to be evacuated in batches. The situation in Europe as a whole has changed against the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union itself is in a precarious crisis. In 1990, the then Soviet President Gorbachev and the Federal Chancellor of Germany reached an agreement to withdraw Soviet troops from GDR. In this year, Putin volunteered to be transferred to the reserve, quietly returned to China, and returned to Leningrad.

The KGB has a glorious history. "KGB" (KGB) is the abbreviation of the National Security Council of the Soviet Union, and its history can be traced back to December 1917. At that time, in order to defend the emerging Soviet regime, dzerzhinsky and others set up an all-Russian committee to eliminate revolutionaries. In the following more than 70 years, the agency changed its name and surname many times, and finally entered history under the name of "KGB". During World War II, KGB agents, represented by sorge, penetrated into the enemy’s heart for a long time, providing valuable information for the strategic decision-making of the Soviet High Command. During the Cold War, "KGB" competed with the CIA and other western intelligence agencies, thus establishing an unshakable position in the world intelligence field. In the Soviet Union, the "KGB" even has the privilege over the Soviet state organs, and even the leaders of the Soviet Party, government and army are afraid of it. It can be said that the "KGB" once spread all over the world. Up to now, the intelligence and outstanding professional quality of these "one in a hundred" KGB are still admirable.

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was restructured into the Russian Federal Security Service; The Russian Foreign Intelligence Agency was set up in the First General Administration, which is called "the world’s four major intelligence organizations" together with the US Central Intelligence Agency, British MI 6 and Israel Mossad.