Mr Putin was serving as a KGB major in Dresden in 1989 when the wall fell and, according to his and other accounts, brandished a pistol to ward off the angry crowd from ransacking the spy agency's offices and purloining its files.Putin says: "you know, I am an officer. I have 12 rounds, I will keep one round for myself but I will shoot carrying out my duty. I can`t do it another way, I am an officer, I protect the thing I serve the headquarters.He said all that and slowly began moving up the stairs back to the building. The shirt in sweat stuck to his back.He was going up the stairs slowly... Putin... 12 steps upwards, and he was expecting that someone would throw a stone or a bottle of schnapps into his back.He was moving very slowly. When he reached the top of the stairs, he turned around. The crowd started breaking up.None of the Germans entered KGB building that night and the next days.