When Russian President Vladimir Putin was growing up in a dilapidated apartment block in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, he and his friends would chase rats through the corridors with sticks. One day, a huge rat he’d cornered suddenly turned on the young Vladimir and chased him back to his quarters.
“I got a quick and lasting lesson in the meaning of the word cornered,” Putin recalled in a 2000 interview.
As the tale has been retold and analysed over the years, a consensus has emerged…
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