Vladimir Putin, the KGB and the German Nazi Gangster Who Was a Communist Spy

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Rainer Sonntag was just your run-of-the-mill, anti-state East German petty criminal—until a black ops team headed by then-KGB agent Vladimir Putin helped turn him into one of Europe's leading neo-Nazi leaders. When the Berlin Wall fell, Putin fled to Saint Petersburg and Sonntag returned to his hometown of Dresden. There he led a gang of skinhead thugs to shake down and beat up foreigners. But when he targeted a downtown brothel, things got bloody real quick. Then he and Putin's legacies really began. Read more about Putin, Sonntag and their violent rises to power in Sean's story for The Atavist, "Follow the Leader" - https://magazine.atavist.com/follow-the-leader-nazi-putin-sonntag-cold-war/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.3	fading neon sign of the form palace pawn cinema.
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1:11.0	and the German city of Dresden is on high alert.
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1:20.3	far-right thugs have rounded on the former communist cities foreigners, beating them up,
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