The elderly Ukrainian woman on the park bench bemoaning the criminal death and destruction around her could have been Vladimir Putin’s mother in Leningrad.That was when the Nazis in World War II surrounded, bombarded and strangled Leningrad, the way the Russians are doing today to Mariupol and other Ukrainian cities. By the time the Nazi siege ended, some 800,000 innocent men, women and children had been killed by Hitler’s bombs or died from starvation and disease. Leningrad was rubble. One of the dead was Viktor Putin, Vladimir Putin’s 2-year-old brother, whom he never met. (Vladimir Putin was born in 1952.)...