Putin reveals how he decided to become an intelligence officer?

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that when he decided to become an intelligence officer he went to the KGB office to find out how to achieve it, and revealed why he changed his mind to become a pilot.

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"I just came to the Soviet KGB office from the street. I have a working-class family and had no connections. Where should I go?", - Mr. Putin said at a meeting with the principals of the graduating class.

According to Mr. Putin there people advise to graduate from Law University.

"From that moment on, I stopped studying physics, chemistry, mathematics, just stopped," - Mr. Putin said.

The Russian president added that he had previously wanted to become a pilot. "I went to flight school. As I walked through the corridors, I imagined how my life would turn out," Putin said, stressing that he eventually realized that he was not interested in such a life.

According to Sputnik