‘What are you so afraid of?’ ABC correspondent challenges Putin on why his opponents end up dead or in jail

You don't even need to consider Gaddafi. Just look at all the previous KGB heads:

Beria, 1953, "Beria was executed separately; he allegedly pleaded on his knees before collapsing to the floor wailing."

Yezhov, 1940, " Yezhov was shot by the future KGB chairman Ivan Serov ... in the basement of a small NKVD station which had a sloping floor so that it could be hosed down after executions, and had been built according to Yezhov's own specifications."

Yagoda, 1937, "At Yagoda's trial, just as though Stalin had been sitting right there in the hall, Yagoda confidently and insistently begged him directly for mercy: 'I appeal to you! For you I built two great canals!' And a witness reports that at just that moment a match flared in the shadows behind a window on the second floor of the hall, apparently behind a muslin curtain, and, while it lasted, the outline of a pipe could be seen. Yagoda was summarily shot after the trial."

There's some serious history there with violence in the government.

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