From KGB agent to Russian President: The rise and the rise of Vladimir Putin

On the morning of 24^th February the Russian President Vladimir Putin declares war on the neighbouring country Ukraine. Tension was going on between the two countries from the several weeks. The central figure in all this developments is the Russian President Vladimir Putin. In this article we are going to see the rise of Vladimir Putin and the Russia.

We all knows that India has a very good relation with the Russia from the time of Jawaharlal Nehru. When India got independence the Russia was under the rule of Joseph Stalin who laid focus on the development of Industries. Government had a total control over the means of production.

Stalin created a roadmap for this development. This roadmap was generally for five years and hence it is also called as “Five year plan”. Nehru also experimented with such plan and created “Planning Commission” to look after the development process.

Vladimir Lenin

Joseph Stalin became the supremo of USSR after the death of Vladimir Lenin. Vladimir Lenin is credited for establishing the Communist rule in Russia. Communism was established in Russia after the Russian Revolution which took place under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin in 1917. Hence Russian Revolution is also known Communist Revolution.

Once Lenin was restricted from the school due his revolutionary nature. But on the request of his mother he got admitted again and he completed his law degree from there.

Lenin came in contact with the Karl Marx’s “Capital” during his college days. In “Capital” Karl Marx criticized the capitalism and the explained how it is exploiting the poor masses. Karl Marx was “Jewish” by religion and he was from Germany. He had to left Germany as there was hatred about the Jewish people. Garman people were trying to claim that there race is superior than others.

Marx finally settled in England. The first part of “Das Capital” was published in England in 1867. In “Capital” Karl Marx said that the society in always divided into two parts. One consists of rich , landlords, ruling class etc and another consists of working class people. The working class people are getting poorer and poorer and others like landlords ,industrialist are getting richer.

This type of ideology largely attracted the youths in Europe. Marx’s ideology gave birth to many revolutions in world.

Rise the the rise of Vladimir Putin

With the end of 20^th century a new kind historic development took place in Russia and that is nothing but the rise of Vladimir Putin to the top position in the Russian Government. The journey of Vladimir Putin to reach such height is quite interesting.

Vladimir Putin is sitting on the throne from 2000 to till now. During 2008 to 2012 he was Prime Minister of Russia.

Vladimir is known for his tough nature. During his time he had successfully undertook many  military expeditions against neighbouring countries.

Vladimir Putin’ fitness, his skills in Russian Martial arts like “Sambo” made him popular among the Russian people.

Putin has been criticized as a fascist leader by the media organizations in England and USA. It a common belief that Vladimir used any sort of measure to shut down his opponents. He didn’t want anyone to came in his way and he can do anything to remove the obstacles.

But Vladimir had done tremendous work to make the Russian economy more robust. His 20 years as a leader of Russian Government saw many important changes in the Russian Economy.

Putin and his foreign policy

The main policy of Putin foreign relations in the opposition to the USA and its every move. In last 20 years Putin has oppose every American actions.

Some political thinkers said that due to him harsh and tough decisions oPutin had reminded the Russian people about their great past.

From KGB agent to Russian President

 It is said that due to his expertise in martial arts games like Judo and Sambo Putin has acquired skill like aggression. Now lets see the story of a son of worker who climbed all the ladders to reach to topmost position in one of the strongest country in the world.

Vladimir’s father was a worker in a factory. Putin was fond of spy stories from his childhood. One day he went to the office of KGB and said that he want to become a spy and ask them what should he do to become one. Officers in KBG suggested him to either join the army or complete his college education.

Putin completed his degree in law and then started working in the security agency where he came in the eyes of KGB officers .

He became KGB officer and was a spy in Germany for five years between 1985 to 1990. Then the wall of Berlin fell and East and West  Germany become unified. After this event Vladimir who had then became lieutenant colonel went back to the Moscow.

After the fall of Soviet Union in December 1991 there was widespread poverty and corruption in Russia. During this time Putin left the KGB and joined the political bureaucracy. This was the second phase in his political carrier. Boris Yeltsin was the president of Russia in 1990s. He joined his office as deputy chief. During this he came in contact with Oligarch. Oligarch is nothing but the group of  richest persons in Russia who had a accumulated a tremendous amount of wealth.

With the support from oligarch he became Prime Minister of Russia in August 1999 and then became president. He started challenging America on every front after that.

In 1991 Ukraine became separate from the Soviet Union and became neighbour of Russia. Ukrainian population was divided into two groups one supporting Russia and another considering themselves as European.

In 2013 there was a popular demand from the Ukrainian people to join European Union. Then president of Ukraine viktor yanukovych rejected this demand. After that Russia occupied the Ukrainian region of Crimea. Getting agitated by this move America and European Union had applied many sanctions on Russia.

Russian under the leadership of Vladimir Putin was active in the geopolitics of Asia. It had sent his troops in Afghanistan and Syria also.

Today Russia is again on a war with Ukraine. Weeks of negotiations did not yield any result. It would be interesting what stand India will take. This is definitely a diplomatic dilemma for Prime Minister Modi