likes to tell a story about how, as a boy from a poor family in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), he used to hunt and kill rats in the basement of the flats they lived in.Once, wielding a stick, he cornered a big one. It fought back, launching itself at his face.The implication of the tale is that the Russian president sees himself as a big rat who will take on any aggressor if trapped.
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