Putin's mentor was Yeltsin's political opponent, and when Yeltsin came to power, he was to be put in prison.

       In times of crisis, Putin ventured to send his mentor secretly abroad, only to gain Yeltsin's appreciation for it.

       Speaking of Putin, we all know that he is the president of Russia and used to be a KGB.

       But you don't necessarily know how he got from an ordinary KGB to the center of power and eventually became president.

       Now, let's talk about what he is relying on.

In one's college years

He met a good teacher.

       In 1970, Putin was admitted to the law department of the University of Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), and Sobchak was his economics professor.

       Although Putin was born into a civilian family, he was very smart and did well in school, especially because he was not tall and strong, but he was unruly in character.

       Although Sobchak has many students, he especially likes Putin, a smart, personality, dare to fight big boy.

       When he graduated from college, Putin once again won the praise of Sobchak for his thesis on the Most-Favored-Nation Principle in International Law.

       "I didn't read you wrong, young man. I believe you will be a good person in the future."

       He wrote a large "excellent" word in this paper.

       Putin asked his mentor to help him with his job.

       He advised him to enter the field of economic management after graduation, or to be a lawyer or prosecutor.

       But Putin scratched his head and said, "teacher, I am not very interested in these industries. I want to participate in the Soviet Union's National Security Council, but I have been unable to make up my mind.

       Sobchak was shocked: the Soviet National Security Council was the KGB, a privileged unit responsible only to the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. It was able to catch whoever it wanted, and even had the right to cut before playing.

       To put it bluntly, this is the secret service. It has a bad reputation both at home and abroad. How could he want to join the KGB?

       Putin explained: "Because it has the privilege to do whatever you want, I think that's where men do their jobs..."

       If you were a regular teacher, you might still stick to your point of view, but Sobchak believes that interest is the basis for success in your career, and in Putin's character, it's good to go to the KGB to wrestle.

       In this way, Putin entered the KGB. Soon, Sook was also thrown away from politics and became mayor of St Petersburg in 1989.

       Putin, who had been working in the KGB for more than a decade, thought of changing his profession. He found Sobchak, who promised to transfer him to his side as mayor's assistant without saying a word.

       "Putin worked in the KGB, and it's not appropriate for him to be your assistant," Sobchak was advised by many people after they learned about it. But Mr. swords said: "I know Putin, and what I see is his ability."

Would rather be hanged for loyalty.

Nor do I want to betray for stealing.

       At that time, St. Petersburg had a lot of historical problems. Putin's outstanding performance prompted him to be promoted from assistant mayor to Chairman of the St. Petersburg External Liaison Committee.

       Then he became the first deputy mayor in charge of foreign economic relations, and became a powerful and loyal assistant to Sobchak.

       On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev, then the former Soviet leader of the party and government, announced his resignation and transferred state power to the newly elected Russian President Yeltsin.

       With the disintegration of several republics, the Soviet Union officially ceased to exist as a sovereign state.

       To Putin's surprise, Sobchak, his mentor, and Yeltsin, the incumbent president, were rivals in politics.

       It turned out that before the collapse of the Soviet Union, two democratic political groups had been fighting for power, one represented Yeltsin, the other represented Sobchak.

       Now that Yeltsin came to power, Sobchak was still seen as the core of the Second Political Group, and Yeltsin certainly would not allow such a person to exist.

       Yeltsin first undermined Sobchak's power, then, under his control, Sobchak was defeated in the governor's election of St. Petersburg in 1996, and was subjected to a series of attacks and reprisals by Yeltsin's group until he was placed under house arrest.

       At this time, Putin showed the loyalty of a student and his subordinates to his teachers and superiors. He resigned without saying anything.

       Then he followed Sobchak out of St. Petersburg's city government and said what was later widely reported in the Russian media: "I would rather be hanged for loyalty than betrayed for stealing life."

       After leaving St. Petersburg's municipal government, Yeltsin had not let Sobuchark go, and he had been asked to knit more than a dozen charges against him.

       Putin was bent on helping his mentor, but he could not do anything because he was unemployed at home. His hunting rifle was confiscated. The only way to relax was to go fishing.

On one occasion, Putin Asobchak was so depressed that he wanted to go out fishing with him. He had just driven the car to the doorway of the house of the people of the state of the block, and was blocked.

       "Without the order of the Supreme Procuratorate of Russia, he can not leave his residence."

Putin was angry but found Kosygin, deputy Procurator General of the Supreme Procuratorate of Russia.

       With the help of Kasikin, who was also a member of the Second Political Group, Putin wrote a guarantee that the two men would go fishing.

       In the Neva River Delta, in the face of the long lost picturesque scenery, two people have no intention of appreciating it.

       Sobchak, of course, can see Putin's loyalty to himself as a student, saying, "Thank you, Valoja.

But if you really want to help me, I don't want you to follow me like this, let alone in this way, but to learn to look after the dark.

       Fortunately, when you worked in the KGB for many years, when the Soviet Union collapsed, you did not participate in the seizure of power, and the Yeltsin government needed people like you. You know, the best way to help me is to succeed quickly. "

       Putin was so impressed by his mentor's words that he was right. To help him, I must first have the ability to help him.

       In August 1996, instead of going back to the forest, he went to Moscow at the invitation of Chubbais.

       Yeltsin also knew Putin and appreciated his talent, especially when he felt that Putin's tough political style was against his temper, and with Chubbies'strong recommendation, Yeltsin immediately appointed Putin as secretary of the Russian Federation's Security Council.

       One day in mid-September 1997, Putin suddenly learned from Kosikin that the Russian Supreme Procuratorate had ended the investigation of Sobchak's case and was about to transfer him to the Supreme Court for trial.

       Putin, who has worked in the KGB for many years, is well aware of the inexorable truth of the crime he intends to add, and secretly finds Sobchak to discuss what to do.

       Swords: "now I am a fish on a chopping board. What else can I do?"

       Putin sincerely said, "No, teacher, without your guidance, there would be no me today, people can not be ungrateful, I must try to save you!"

       Sobchak patted Putin on the shoulder and said, "I'm satisfied that you have the will. You don't have the ability to do it yet. And if you do, Yeltsin won't let you go."

       Sobchak was right. Although Putin was powerful enough to save an ordinary man, he was not strong enough to save a great man like Sobchak.

       But what Putin thought was: if I had no idea when my mentor died, would I still be alone? The question is, how can we help our teacher escape prison?

       With that in mind, he suddenly thought of the friends and relationships he had known in the KGB, and a bold and astonishing plan slowly surfaced in his mind.

Salvation of the teacher

But Yeltsin let him go.

       It turned out that in 1985 when Putin worked in the KGB, the daughter of Vanitana, president of Polish Aecibo Airlines, was kidnapped by the Italian Mafia.

       Vanitana first asked the CIA to appear, but because they were afraid of hurting the hostages, and did not succeed in rescuing them.

       Vaneta then had to come again and ask the KGB to come forward and organize the matter to Putin and others.

       Knowing that this could not be hard, Putin turned to the relationship between the KGB and the American underworld to find the Italian Mafia and soon settled the matter successfully.

       Because of this, Valentine was very grateful to Putin.

       Putin thought: The teacher has been under house arrest, in this case, if the usual way to save him is impossible, then can I ask Vanitana to lend me a plane, directly sent to the teacher abroad?

       Putin soon found out that he had made a secret of his idea.

       Vanitana was unexpectedly worried because Poland was very close to Russia and had close ties, especially since nearly half of his airline's business was Russian, and he feared that he would lose too much if it offended Yeltsin.

       Vanitana also felt that he owed Putin a great deal of human kindness. Besides, such people were not easy to provoke. He thought about it and said:

       "I'm sure I can't lend you a plane, and I can't help you explicitly, but you can rent a plane from my company..."

       Putin said, "I don't have that much money!"

       "Not much," Vanitana said. "I'll say hello to them. You just give them a little bit of rent symbolically."

       So Putin apparently spent $10,000, actually only $200, to rent a Boeing 747 from Vanitana's company.

       On the evening of September 24, 1997, a kungfu-clad Putin quietly subdued several guards, then sneaked into Sobchak's villa and woke up his sleeping teacher: "Teacher, follow me!"

       Sobchak, however, was reluctant to leave after asking the truth: "If you save me like this, you will commit treason. Yeltsin will sentence you to death. Why are you so confused?"

       Putin said: "Teacher, I worked in the KGB, I know, for your age and body, if put in prison, is tantamount to the death penalty!

       As I said, I did it out of our teacher-student relationship, and it has nothing to do with politics. Besides, I can't manage so much now. It's important to save your life.

       Then, whether he liked it or not, the master jumped from the back door of the villa to the car he had already arranged and drove to the airport.

       Putin took his mentor aboard the plane and said, "One man does one thing and one man does one thing. Teacher, I won't give you up. Tomorrow I will surrender to the president. I have arranged for a good person to pick you up at Paris Airport, so take care of yourself. "

       Then he turned and left.

       Sobchak was moved to tears, but he didn't know what to say.

       Putin was ready to execute President Yeltsin for treason, but he felt he had to make it clear to the president.

       The next morning, he came to Yeltsin's office and told the whole story, "President, I have failed your cultivation, but he is my teacher, and I must do so!"

       To Putin's surprise, Yeltsin stood up and walked around the office several times without saying a word. Suddenly, he laughed.

       "Vladimir, do you know why I value you? Just because you have two virtues that no one else has, one is a soldier's temperament and courage, the other is the attitude towards friends.

       You are right, though I am not compatible with the political views of Mr.

       "I'm glad you said something bad about Sobchak in front of you on several occasions, but you never echoed it.

       It's very precious because there are so many people in the world who lose themselves, flatter and even betray their friends in the face of political and economic interests.

       Well, when this has not happened, I have a bigger burden for you to pick. "

       It was from this moment that Yeltsin had chosen Putin in his mind as his future successor, because whenever he arrived, he was still him.

       Since then, the incident has been stirred up by the Russian media, but Putin has done nothing because Yeltsin has covered it.

       After his arrival in France, Putin's friends arranged his life well. A few years later, Sobchak's lawsuit was slowly forgotten.

       At the beginning of 2000, Putin began to run for President of Russia. Sobchak also ran for students at home and abroad.

       No one had thought that in February 20, 2000, Sobchak suddenly died in Kaliningrad.

       Putin rushed in the first place, and at his master's funeral, he gave Sobchak a high appraisal, calling him his own political mentor, a model of democratic politicians.

       On August 10, 2011, the 70th anniversary of Sobchak's birth, Putin accompanied Sobchak's widow, Lyudmila Narusova, to pay a visit to Sobchak's cemetery at Nicol Cemetery, offering flowers to comfort the dead.

       Perhaps it is this kind of dare and dare that deeply touched the Russian masses and Yeltsin.

This is the son of a civilian, a judo expert, a Soviet-era intelligence officer, a head of state capable of flying fighter planes - Putin.