Putin Sings Patriotic Songs From Soviet Era With 10 Deported Russian Spies
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with 10 spies deported from the U.S. earlier this month and sang Soviet era patriotic songs with them.
Their return was the result of betrayal by traitors whose names are known to the Russian state, Putin said in Ukraine yesterday, according to a Russian government website.
“Traitors always end badly,” Putin said. “They end up in the gutter usually as drunks or drug addicts.”
Ten convicted members of a Russian spy ring in the U.S. returned to Moscow on July 12 in an exchange for 4 men jailed in Russia. Putin said that he and the spies sang “How the Motherland Begins” and other songs.
The spies would likely find jobs in “respectable places” and have “bright and interesting lives,” Putin said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Stephen Bierman in Moscow sbierman1@bloomberg.net.
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