You're reading: Newsweek: ‘Putin doesn’t need friends any more. He needs enemies’ – Garry Kasparov

Adolf Hitler, I suggest to Garry Kasparov, undeniably had his faults. But is it wrong to imagine that even the Führer - in common with Stalin, Robespierre and Pol Pot - initially entered political life with some notion of enhancing the public good?

Read the story here.