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Anne's avatar

Thanks for exposing this kind of nonsense posing as serious psychology. Putin was loved by his parents which is important for good mental health. Adversity during childhood far from making Putin a murderer (ridiculous attempt to influence) has in fact made him determined to fight against injustice. He is very much aware that children have no power against privileged adults who wage wars with no thought for the victims. It is those with privileged backgrounds who are much less likely to have empathy for those less fortunate. Putin is the best leader the Russians have ever had. He has lifted up his people after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dreadful years of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. It's a pity that western leaders are the bought puppets of western oligarchs. Putin is the real deal: a true leader of his people.

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Davy Ro's avatar

Putin has done more for his country & citizens, than every Western ruler put together

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Tom Welsh's avatar

Such writers are easy to understand as soon as one accepts that they are not reporters or journalists, but professional propagandists. If you have the contacts, such a course of life has great advantages. You don't need to go anywhere dangerous - indeed, anywhere at all - you don't need to do any research, and you don't need to get your facts right. Indeed, if you get the wrong facts right, you will be fired.

Nice work if you can get it - and if you have had a consciencectomy.

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Truth Seeking Missile's avatar

Vladimir Putin has kept me, a retired American, sane through the last 20 years. Imagine if he didn't exist or if he were a con-man psychopath like Clinton, Bush. Obama, Biden, Trump, Netanyahu, Johnson, Macron, and the other western imperialists. There would be no counterweight to the world's madness, to the endless terrorism and piracy of nations and peoples.

Thank fate, randomness, god, and all the rest of life's mysteries for Putin, and Xi along with him. May they never leave us.

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Jim Williamson's avatar

Pop psychology was invented by and for Shitlibs. These people are over emotionally constructed and prime targets for those targeting the gullible, on their long(and well paid) journey down the rabbit hole of their own self pity. It really is a con trick on those sad people looking for easy answers when really there aren't any there.

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dikran Tulaine's avatar

Ah well done! Bernays, founder of American culture.

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Anne's avatar

American culture - Now that's a laugh.

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Drew Currah's avatar

Ever hear of Jazz?

Rock and Roll?

Phillip K. Dick?

Lou Reed

Don't be silly

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Valerie Swales's avatar

Need repeated reminding how how those who construe spin their webs, thanks for this. Ever dissect Anne Applebaum?

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Alex Sachs's avatar

This Lady is not Putin’s mother, but his teacher, Vera Dmitriyevna Gurevich. He loved her and still is in contact to her today.

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Julian Macfarlane's avatar

Thank you for this! I thought that she looked different form is mother but didn’t quite put 2 and 2 together.

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Drew Currah's avatar

Goebbels learned from Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud.

Here is an interview with Bernays and David Letterman in 1985. when he was 82:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-4AulOuCPI

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Loon's avatar

Never trust an intellect for it’s impossible in a rational way to describe how good people make good friends.

To ask the question scientifically what is a good person will leave them dumbfounded.

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Moscow Exile's avatar

Putin and his mom? That photo is of Vladimir Vladimirovich and his wife Lyudmila Aleksandrovna

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Alex Sachs's avatar

Wrong. His teacher.

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Moscow Exile's avatar

No. I repeat: she is Putin's then wife to be. When Putin was the age that he appears to be in the photo, his former teacher was much older than the woman is who is standing him near him, and that woman in the picture is air hostess Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Shkrebneva, whom he met in 1980.

see: https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/331252-putin-before-became-president

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Alex Sachs's avatar

Look at your own photos and you see you are wrong. His wife was younger than him and looks completely different.

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illya kuryakin's avatar

Trump: draft dodger, spoiled brat, would have lost every penny inherited if daddy didn't step in with a big fat line of credit from his pals on wall st., rentier class (as Michael Hudson would phrase it), lost half his deals as a developer, vastly overpaid for golf courses, stiffed just about every subcontractor that ever worked for him, serial bribe maker and breaker, stupid but arrogant, vastly Uninformed about anything, obsessive clean freak/germ freak (an actual disorder), etc.

What would this stupid bitch make of that?

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Moscow Exile's avatar

Or does "Putin and his mom" not refer to the picture above that statement?

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