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⭐️⭐️⭐️ I should‘ve paid more attention to the publication date and looked for a newer book, but this well-written account of Putin‘s rise to power, and everything he dismantled in the process, was still worthwhile. He is, and seemingly always has been, a manipulative, corrupt, garbage human.