RUSSIA'S brutal destruction of a Ukrainian dam leaving thousands fleeing for their lives is Vladimir Putin taking a page right from the brutal playbook of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Putin's manmade disaster is an almost exact copy of an attack by Stalin back in 1941 - which may have killed up to 100,000 innocent civilians. 13 Russian President Vladimir Putin's latest actions have been similar to his predecessors Credit: Getty 13 Putin's playbook is almost an exact copy of Joseph Stalin's, experts claim Credit: Hulton Archive - Getty 13 The dam had been constructed only ten years before Stalin's forces...