Never a dull moment with Putin

Picture #16 is really cool: "The new government on its way to its first discussion with the opposition"...
 
There is some awsome footage on youtube of Putin driving the new Lada across Russia.
Some people next to the road film his convoy.

Trailing Putin by about a kilometre is a trailer with 6 extra identical Ladas, just in case the Russian quality product breaks down.

I don't see Toyota quivering in it's boots yet.

So yeah, all staged promo events.

But Russian men can certainly learn from his active, Vodka-free lifestyle.
Plus: He does a lot of stuff that I would find fun, and yes that includes his photographer.
 
angrysoba said:
The one on the right is still freshly broken.
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I saw video on German TV of his "discovery".
Once out of the water, he looked at the vases and immediately identified the period and origin.

LOL. It was really painfully obvious.

I wonder how many Russians actually fall for this. Does anybody know a site with Putin jokes?
The Soviet-era cynical humor is out of date by now, but it was pretty funny.
I'm sure there are plenty of Putin jokes going round in Russia.
 
geni said:
Yes and most of the other photos are at best ah highly posed. I'm not sure how much is electorate care though
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I think the only people believing in it are the ones who really wants to.
(It could be a lot of people?)
 
The Russians should go ahead, make Putin emperor for life, and get it over with. Enough with the coy pretenses. Russians love to be ruled with an iron fist by a big, bad Alpha Dude. With Putin large and in charge, they can have that for several decades. By the time Putin dies or steps down, they will all have migrated to other countries, Russia will be an empty wasteland, and what happens next won't matter.
 
What you're looking at now is the result of wasting the last six decades on Communist rule. It's like saying a person with cirrhosis was better off as an alcoholic.
 
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Eddie Dane said:
I saw video on German TV of his "discovery".
Once out of the water, he looked at the vases and immediately identified the period and origin.

LOL. It was really painfully obvious.

I wonder how many Russians actually fall for this. Does anybody know a site with Putin jokes?The Soviet-era cynical humor is out of date by now, but it was pretty funny.
I'm sure there are plenty of Putin jokes going round in Russia.
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Just go here and replace the words "Chuck Norris" with "Vladimir Putin".
 
bikerdruid said:
the russians seem to have a need for strong leadership.
lenin saw that, and, contrary to marxism, set up a strong authority.
most working class russians believe they were better off under communism.
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Considering how incredibly rich Russia is in resources, it is quite a feat that they managed to end up in such a mess.
Oil, gold, uranium, gas, agricultural land, timber, there is no end to the riches they are sitting on.

Not much of that seems to be trickling down to the working class, though.
 
I wonder when Putin will convince the Ukrainians and Belarussians that they should make an East Slav Union together?
 
bikerdruid said:
the russians seem to have a need for strong leadership.
lenin saw that, and, contrary to marxism, set up a strong authority.
most working class russians believe they were better off under communism.
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Hey kids, have you heard the news? Authoritarianism is the new Freedom!

Oh, you square ol' Yankee Doodles and stuffy Europeans, don't you know that while it's freedom to roam for the Canucks that I favour, it's iron-fisted repression I want for the Russians and the Arabs!
 
Of course it is staged. Oh, I am sure Putin enjoyed doing most of these things, and is actually accomplished at some of them (he cannot fake being good in judo, for example), but we would never see these pictures if Putin or his PR people did not think there is political advantage to them.

Which brings up a question -- why is there a political advantage? I don't think any US president in living memory could get any political mileage out of photographs of him half-naked with a rifle, flying a firefighting plane, or trying to bend a frying pan. For Obama any of that stuff would be beyond ridiculous despite the fact he actually is in good physical shape. But even a president who conceivably could do some of them (George W. is a licensed pilot after all, and could plausibly pose at the controls of a firefighting plane) would receive no PR benefit. Supporters support him already, detractros would jeer, and most fence-sitters would dismiss such photos as a publicity stunt. Yet such publicity stunts must work on Russians, or there would not be so many of them. Why?
 
Mark6 said:
I don't think any US president in living memory could get any political mileage out of photographs of him half-naked with a rifle, flying a firefighting plane, or trying to bend a frying pan. For Obama any of that stuff would be beyond ridiculous despite the fact he actually is in good physical shape. But even a president who conceivably could do some of them (George W. is a licensed pilot after all, and could plausibly pose at the controls of a firefighting plane) would receive no PR benefit.
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I blame Dukakis.
 
Mark6 said:
Of course it is staged. Oh, I am sure Putin enjoyed doing most of these things, and is actually accomplished at some of them (he cannot fake being good in judo, for example), but we would never see these pictures if Putin or his PR people did not think there is political advantage to them.

Which brings up a question -- why is there a political advantage? I don't think any US president in living memory could get any political mileage out of photographs of him half-naked with a rifle, flying a firefighting plane, or trying to bend a frying pan. For Obama any of that stuff would be beyond ridiculous despite the fact he actually is in good physical shape. But even a president who conceivably could do some of them (George W. is a licensed pilot after all, and could plausibly pose at the controls of a firefighting plane) would receive no PR benefit. Supporters support him already, detractros would jeer, and most fence-sitters would dismiss such photos as a publicity stunt. Yet such publicity stunts must work on Russians, or there would not be so many of them. Why?
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I suspect that things are mightily different in the former USSR. Being a dismantled super-power has to affect one's ego. So having a super-macho image showing the world "I can do anything" probably works quite well for him.
 
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