After living in Germany for five years as a KGB agent (”alongside our German colleagues and friends”), he “possessed” the language, and now says, “In five years, even someone with average language ability can master a foreign language — like the bear that goes to the circus and learns to ride a bicycle“…always the charmer, Vladimir Putin.
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