The Man Who Survived Being Shot Through the Head By the World’s Strongest Laser

Alexander Litvinenko

This former KGB officer fled Russia to start a new life in the UK. It is suspected that the Russian government poisoned him with a lethal dose of Polonium-210, although there is no definitive evidence that the Russian government had anything to do with it.

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