I even know the author, who you read
Actually it was a BBC radio documentary I listened to, that used actual primary sources and documentation, making it at least seem a little credible. It's not very sensationalized, the dude just seemed happy with his job as East Germany fell apart around him making his entire career pointless
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nsd2bHere's a web article version
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32066222When I was younger I used to think "man, I really need to learn the Russian language" since I was like 10 years old studying The Cold War on my own and saw its nothing but Russians manipulating the West nonstop and most people don't have a clue lmao, I used to want to join the CIA in case it started Happening Again....
Nowadays I'm a full-fledged writer conducting my own research into stuff like ancient Slavic mythology/folklore and Russian/Ukranian Psychologists during the Soviet era (since u know, the Germans apparently murdered literally all the top Polish ones with the SS going room to room of top research hospitals filled with Jews and Poles and children shooting them and teaching everyone THE POLES ARE A STUPID, SIMPLE RACE.. I even grew up being called a "stupid polack" everywhere lmao) and I literally hit dead ends INSTANTLY.. cuz every source is in Russian.
You fucking bastards are never gonna translate any of this crap I'm sure lol, I guess its not too late to lock myself in a basement studying Russian for a couple months for basic literacy, but I'll prob snap mentally and fly to Moscow and end up like Edward Snowden imprisoned in a hotel room at the end of it
Anytime I hear news about Russia nowadays or listen to KGB defectors from the 70s and 80s etc I just assume they are triple agents or something and have to randomly guess what is honest or not
Here's another recent American documentary on Putin's career by PBS Frontline (the closest we have here to the BBC in journalistic credibility, they make really great documentaries on warzones or crisis areas especially)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/putins-way/I just think "they seem sincere, but they also seem like suspicious traitors To Mother Russia living in another country shit talking the government, like Edward Snowden started doing to America the Beautiful, and I don't trust him at all.... so.."