Terrorism in the North Caucasus in 1999 put Russia on the brink of collapse, so the fight with it demanded decisive action. This was told by Vladimir Putin in the movie "The President" on the Russia 1 channel .
"I have decided for myself: there is no other choice - to go to the end", he said. "Nothing was possible to do to except to chose to suppress the terrorism", the head of state said.
"At that moment I could not decide, I had to really do it, but it was not just a set of powers», Putin says. "It was clear how big that responsibility was,» he said. "I had only one question: if we fail to finish the job that is there to do, how then to survive», - the President confessed.
