The CIA, space dogs and the Eurovision...

Three unlikely bedfellows to help topple Putin

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VLADIMIR Putin is not much of a music aficionado by all accounts.

Other than once singing Blueberry Hill at a charity event and declaring he likes “Russian music”, there is little on record about him having much interest.

It does make me wonder does his indifference stem from losing the Cold War?

Putin has declared the collapse of the old Soviet Union after the fall of the Berlin Wall to be the great tragedy of the 20th Century.

He has been very busy trying to reverse that tragedy by any means necessary since coming to power, most notably by rolling his tanks into Ukraine.

What's that got to do with rock'n'roll you ask? Well, only perhaps the greatest spy conspiracy ever told.

In the late 1980s, German rockers Scorpions had a monster hit with their ‘haunting ballad’ Winds of Change.

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It became the anthem of a generation across the old Soviet and Eastern European bloc just as real winds of change were beginning to shake the Berlin Wall and blow open the Iron Curtain.