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Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin

RIP Madeleine Albright, Colorado Women's Hall of Fame inductee and, oh yes, first female Secretary of State.

Originally Posted by The Guardian

Albright wrote in the New York Times of meeting him in Moscow in 2000. “Flying home,” she wrote, “I recorded my impressions. ‘Putin is small and pale,’ I wrote, ‘so cold as to be almost reptilian.’ He claimed to understand why the Berlin Wall had to fall but had not expected the whole Soviet Union to collapse. ‘Putin is embarrassed by what happened to his country and determined to restore its greatness.’”