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“[T]he extraordinary experience of the ruler -- the daily life of sycophancy, grandeur, solitude, distrust -- in the Kremlin is so bizarre, so isolated, so dangerous that over the years, it molds, remakes and distorts the ruler,” Simon Sebag Montefiore, a historian who has written books about rulers from the Romanov dynasty to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, wrote in a post on X. Referring to Stalin, Putin, and others who ruled the country, Montefiore wrote that “once they wore the crown,...