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Message: [QUOTE="squatting dog, post: 2454696, member: 2783"] When talking about removing Putin, one should be careful what you wish for. If Putin was gone, you could very well end up with Nickolai Patrushev, who is his right hand man and is even more barbaric than Putin. "Patrushev is the most influential person in the Kremlin bureaucracy and is the only person Putin trusts — to the extent he trusts anyone. The two share more than a strong professional relationship. They are friends. Both Putin and Patrushev come from the same stock of Chekists, the term that refers to Soviet and Russian intelligence services known by the Russian acronym ChK, the powerful secret police agency in the USSR. Chekists view themselves as elite warriors, dedicated to protecting the fatherland from its enemies." [/QUOTE]