Kremlin-watchers have long placed meaning on a famous story Vladimir once told of his encounter with a rat when he was a child in the Soviet ruins of Leningrad. Wielding a stick, he chased it down a hall and drove it into a corner.With no way of escaping, 'suddenly it lashed around and threw itself at me,' he related in his official biography. 'I got a quick and lasting lesson in the meaning of the word 'cornered'.'
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