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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do people see Vladimir Putin as controversial/a bad guy?
gpt
Putin has consistently acted very aggressively towards opponents and neighbours; sometimes even breaking international law. 

You can imagine having a very aggressive neighbor, who has several times thrown eggs at your neighbors houses. When questioned, he denies that he did it, and blames you.  When his son is caught with a carton of eggs in front of someone's house, putin first denies the accusation, and later claims that the son was acting alone, and that house looks better with egg on it anyway. Sometimes he even moves his fence and takes some of the other neighbor's land! 
At the weekly neighborhood meetings, everyone gets angry with putin, but they cannot kick him off the block because he is on the board for the neighborhood committee.