The historical figure President Putin fears most is Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
Except for suppressing romantic freedom during the Prague Spring early in his regime and invading Afghanistan toward its end, he was the most capable politician in Russian history, single-handedly managing the vast Soviet bureaucratic socialist system and concluding the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that sealed the thaw in the US-Soviet Cold War.
As someone bearing the name Leo, Leonid Brezhnev remains in the recesses of my memory. I correct his mistakes through theoretical refinement and use them as a foundation to exert presence/momentum/potential/power in realpolitik. This is the concept of Bellum Leonum, the Lion's War.
遠山玲央/巫山戯瑠奈/zY/Leo J Toyama