> Rusland: De broer van Putin stierf in Leningrad tijdens de belegering
> door NAZI Duitsland van de stad!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
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> Early life
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> Five-year-old Putin in 1958, his parents Vladimir and Maria
> Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint
> Petersburg, Russia),[23][24] the youngest of three children of Vladimir
> Spiridonovich Putin (1911–1999) and Maria Ivanovna Putina (née
> Shelomova; 1911–1998). His grandfather, Spiridon Putin (1879–1965), was
> a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.[25][26] Putin's
> birth was preceded by the deaths of two brothers: Albert, born in the
> 1930s, died in infancy, and Viktor, born in 1940, died of diphtheria and
> starvation in 1942 during the Siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany's
> forces in World War II.[27][28]
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> Putin's mother was a factory worker and his father was a conscript in
> the Soviet Navy, serving in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s.
> During the early stage of Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union, his
> father served in the destruction battalion of the NKVD.[29][30][31]
> Later, he was transferred to the regular army and was severely wounded
> in 1942.[32] Putin's maternal grandmother was killed by the German
> occupiers of Tver region in 1941, and his maternal uncles disappeared on
> the Eastern Front during World War II.[33]