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Putin's mother won a car in a lottery. His family had to choose: sell it for an apartment, or keep it so he could get to university. They stayed in their one-room communal apartment. She chose her son's future. That's who Putin came from. Putin's mother worked as a hospital janitor after retiring. One day at the cafeteria, they gave her a lottery ticket as change. She won a car, a Zaporozhets. The most basic car you could get in the Soviet Union. The family lived in one room which was so called ommunal apartment with shared kitchen, shared bathroom with other families. Putin had just started university. They sat down to decide what to do. Sell the ticket and buy a cooperative apartment, or keep the car. Putin was sure they'd sell it. Getting out of that single room was the obvious choice for a family living on almost nothing. His mother said: We'll take the car. Let our son drive it. They stayed in that one room so he could have transportation to university. That's who Putin came from. Trump's father was a real estate mogul worth hundreds of millions. Trump grew up in a 23-room mansion, private schools, a reported $413 million inheritance. His first ventures funded with his father's money. He was born into an empire. Americans love to talk about rejecting kings. No monarchy, no aristocracy. But the self-made man is the American Dream. Then they elect someone born into dynastic wealth who lives in a gold-plated penthouse and puts his kids in government positions. And call the guy whose mom worked as a janitor a dictator. But it turns out Putin is the ultimate American Dream story: a self-made man who rose from an ordinary family to become a representative of his people and the leader of his country.

Putin è andato personalmente a prendere la sua prima insegnante, Vera Gurevich, per portarla a cena al Cremlino. Il presidente è andato a prenderla in albergo alla guida di un Aurus. Putin ha invitato la sua insegnante a Mosca per la parata della Vittoria. Dopo di che, per lei sono stati preparati un programma culturale e una cena al Cremlino. Vera Gurevich insegnava tedesco al presidente Putin.

Vladimir Putin commented on the Iran war: "Even those involved in this conflict can't predict what will happen... There are some estimates that you can compare this situation to the coronavirus pandemic." People need to understand this is not just some distant war in the Middle East. This is a real systemic shock, and it will affect everyone. Kudos to Putin for spelling it out.

☝️ “The use of US military power in Iran would be a disaster, because it is very difficult to predict the consequences. Iran is a Shiite nation, and in the Islamic world, it is believed that its people are capable of taking extreme measures if necessary to defend themselves and their country. And no one knows what those measures might entail” - President Putin 2019