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Russian President Vladimir Putin was a taxi driver in his spare time to make ends meet after the collapse of the USSR, which he said marked the end of "historic Russia", according to a documentary soon to be  broadcast on Russian television.  A former KGB secret service agent, Vladimir Putin, who has deplored  the fall of the Soviet empire in the past, said some 30 years later that  the event remains a "tragedy" for "most citizens", according to  excerpts from the "Russia... The end of the USSR brought a period of economic instability that  plunged many people into poverty as newly independent Russia moved from communism to capitalism.


"Sometimes I had to earn a little extra money," Putin said in the documentary, explaining that he occasionally worked as a taxi driver to supplement his income. "I mean, earning extra money with the car, as a private driver. It's  unpleasant to talk about it to be honest but, unfortunately, that was  the case," Putin says in the documentary. A loyal servant of the Soviet Union, Putin was appalled when it  collapsed, once calling it "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the  20th century". "After all, what is the collapse of the Soviet Union? It is the  collapse of historic Russia under the name of the Soviet Union," the  Russian leader was quoted in the film as saying ...In 1991, shaken by economic difficulties, the Soviet Union disintegrated and Russia became an independent nation.