In the 1980s an East German criminal was delivered across the Berlin Wall to fuel a tide of neo-Nazi violence that still plagues Germany today.

His name was Rainer Sonntag—and he was a Communist spy.

His handler? Vladimir Putin.

magazine.atavist.com/follow-the-lea… Sonntag grew disillusioned with East Germany's worker's paradise—and attempted a couple of elaborate escapes.

The nation's feared secret police was always a step—and an informant—ahead. Sonntag faced an ultimatum: spy for the cops, or go back to jail.
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