Going abroad broadens the mind

With the allegations contained in the World Anti-Doping Agency, primarily towards Russia and the withdrawal of accreditation for a WADA laboratory in Moscow, it reminds me that Vladimir Putin spent the crucial years of Glasnost and Perestroika as a KGB officer in East Germany.  While there, did he become familiar with the GDR's state-sponsored doping of athletes, leading him to instruct the likes of Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko (Muttley to Putin's Dick Dastardly) to proceed with just such a Russian programme to score easy nationalistic victories?  The coincidence is striking.